This is an analysis of the poem At Lulworth Cove A Century Back that begins with:
Had I but lived a hundred years ago
I might have gone, as I have gone this year,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dadX cecX bebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010001 1111111101 1101100111 1111010111 10011100111111 10111111111 1111011101 11010111110 100111001011111 011001111101 1101011111 11110111010 1001110010110111 1010110010101 1011111101 111011111110 10111010101 1111111111 010010101011 110100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, have, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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