This is an analysis of the poem Road Song Of The Bandar-Log that begins with:
Here we go in a flung festoon,
Half-way up to the jealous moon!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdD ccccdddD ddeeaadDd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111 11100101 111011001 11111101 111101101 100100101 11101101 10111101 11100101 100100111 100111101 101000111 10101110 11101011 11100101 10111101 10111011 10111111 11111110 1001011010 100100101 11110111 110111101 10111101 000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, we, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word behind at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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