This is an analysis of the poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester that begins with:
Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeeccffXX fgghhiihhjjkkXj XXlljjiiccmmnnoXppnnppmmffjjccjjhhffhh c jjcciioXppeejXqqnnhhrrhhhhXXXkhhaaddffffeeii oXjXhhiiaaiimXjjppppiiffmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,15,38,1,44,26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001 1011101 10110111 10010101 11010111 01010101 11010101 01010111 01001111 10011111 010100101 11011111 11110111 10111101 11010111 11000011 1101 0101 11110111 11010101 110010101 10000101 11011101 11010101 11011111 01011101 11010101 110010101 11011101 11011001 010010111 101100110 111001010 1101110 01000100 10101101 01011111 11010111 01010101 11010011 0101101 11011101 11111111 11011111 11110101 11010101 10110101 010100111 01000100 10010101 01010101 11010101 11110011 11010101 10010101 100101001 11010101 10110111 11010111 11010101 01010101 100110111 110100101 11010101 01100101 11010001 10000101 01010101 11010101 110011101 01011101 10110101011010111000101101 11011101 111010101 11001111 11010111 110000110 01111101 10110101 01010100 11010101 101011101 11010011 11111101 11011111 11111100 110111110 1110101010 11010111 11011101 11011101 11010101 11111101 11001101 1111110110 11010101 111101111 10110011 11111110 011101100 11001100 11110101 11010101 11110011 110100101 01010101 11010111 11110101 01001111 11111111 01011111 01010101 11001101 11100001 11110101 11110101 11010101 01011100 010101110 101001000 1011101 1000101 11011101 110001101 010101001 01100001 01010111 1000101 11110101 01000100 11010101 11110101 10010111 10110101 110010101 10011001 10110101 11001101 11111001 01111111 10111101 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 864
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 142
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, green, in, epsilon, at, they, yet are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, they are repeated.
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