This is an analysis of the poem Wandering Singers that begins with:

WHERE the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet,
Through echoing forest and echoing street, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101001111001 11001011001 01011101011 11111001011 11101011001 01011001011 01011001011 11011011001 11111011111 101111001111 11111011111 01001001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, of, and, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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