This is an analysis of the poem The Lovers' Litany that begins with:
Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay,
Driving rain and falling tears,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaCX dedeaacX ffffaacX bXbXXXcX ceaXggaCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 1010101 0010101 1111111 1111111 1010100 11011110100 1010101 1010111 1010101 0010101 1110101 1111111 1010100 1111110100 1010101 1110101 1011101 1110111 1110101 1110101 0010100 11011110100 1010101 10000111 1000111 1110110 110001000010100 1011100 1110100 11011110100 1001100 1011101 1110101 1001000 1010101 1010111 1110111 1010100 11011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word eyes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word i at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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