This is an analysis of the poem Private Ground that begins with:
First frost, and I walk among the rose-fruit, the marble toes
Of the Greek beauties you brought...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacb XaXXcX ddeaaa eXadXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111010110101 0011011 110101 0101100111 1111000101 0101010 11001010101 10100111 1011100110 1011001100001 010101010101 100111000 010111110111 11101111 01011111 10110011111 1001101001010 0111111 011111010101 111001101011 110110 11011110101 10111110001 10110100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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