This is an analysis of the poem Personal Helicon that begins with:
for Michael Longley
As a child, they could not keep me from wells ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXaX bcbc dede fgfg eheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 1011111101 1110101100 1101101101 010010111 10011001011 11000111010 1001101001 1111101000 0101100111 1001100100 1111110011 0111010010 1011011111 0011100011 11001110111 100011011010 1010010101 011101000101 00111010011 011101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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