This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written In The Belief That The Ancient Roman Festival Of The Dead Was Called Ambarvalia that begins with:
Swings the way still by hollow and hill,
And all the world's a song;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX defe eghg geae ijkj efjf aXcl XLfl hmnm kgfg fcfc blbl edad Opip Xfbf XLpl Oebe gjnX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101111011 110101 10100111010011 100011010 11001010011 101101 11010111 010011 1010101111 100111 1111011010 110111 101110110 111101 101110101 001101 1100101010 101101 10111011 1010101 111111111 0011101 11110101 0010101 11010101 111000 11110111 111111 1111110 111101 101010101 110101 1101101010 1111101 1101111101 111011 10111111 111101 111101111 011011 101101011 110001 110111011 111101 11001110 110101 1011110 101101 110101011 010001 111010101 010101 01111100 1111001 0111011010 010101 0101101100 011101 011101110 111101 1111110 111101 10111101 0010001 01111100 011111 010111100 111101 1101111010 011111 11110111 11000
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; it, and, i, your, heart, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, their, they'll, you, the, nor are repeated.
The author used the same words they, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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