This is an analysis of the poem Stars Over The Dordogne that begins with:
Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
Picket of trees whose silhouette is darker...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaccXd deXceecf bgXhgeie edXcXXefXfgiiccdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011100010 10011101010 1010010100110 01101011100 1111111110100 1111110111 110100011100 111001000101 11111100101 011111110110 1111111100 0101110100111 1110110111 111011010111 101110100100110 111110110110 01100110010 11010110011011 101010010010 1011101010010 1001010001011 111101110111 111010011011 01000101011 11001101100 1001111010001 101000110101 011110111100 111111101010 111001010001 1111001101011 110010101 01010001101 11111101111 1111010011 100101100110 101111111111 1010010110111 00101011111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; they, at, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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