This is an analysis of the poem Tantramar Revisited that begins with:
Summers and summers have come, and gone with the flight of the swallow;
Sunshine and thunder have been, storm, and winter, and frost;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabccdefeeeadd XgXeehbahb Xaibjcegedha hbhehkijkdaXad cacX XXbhiadgcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,12,14,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011110010010 1111010111011 1011001011110010 1001011001101 1011111110110 1001011111101 100100101010011 1001111000111 1101111001110111 1001111001001 101101111010010 101110101111 10011110010110 11111110111 100101010010011 10010011001001 110101001110010 1110011000101 10010111001010 101101011011011 100111010010010 110110111001001 10110100101010010 1011001110101 10110010101010 1101111001111 10011101010110 11011101011101 111101011110111 1010011011001 110100101111011 1001011011001 1101001101110010 1001110101101 111101001011110 10101111001001 1101001110110110 10010011001001 1101011001111010 101011101001 101110101010010 10100110111 11011101110110 1001111001001 111111001110010 100100111001001 110111101110011 100100110010001 10111111010011 10011001001001 110100101110010 1011010111101 100100110110010 1110011101001 11111100110011 101111011001 11111001110011 1101110101011 1011111011010 1110011001011 10111111110011 1101111001011 1111111010010 1111101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, many, of, or, from, miles, old, time are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words many, miles are repeated.
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