This is an analysis of the poem The Bard that begins with:
My friends, can you descry that mound of earth
Above clear waters in the shade of trees?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbcdD edXedXdD dXfXbgcD XhiddgeD hhfhfffX eXieacbD X XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101101 0111000101 11110100010101 111101110001 011110101 01110101 1101010001 11 01010101 110100001 1101110111 11010101010 11011101 110100101 11110100101 11 110100010001 0101110011 1101100101 0101111101 11110001 1110001010 11001101 11 11011100 11010111 1101110101 1101000101 110011011111 110101 01010111 11 1111010 01010101010 100111111101 11000101110100 11000101 111101 10110101 011 011101010 1101110101 011101 11011101 110101 111000101 010101 11 11 111111 11111111 11111111 1111111 11111 111111 11111 11 11111111 1111111111 11111111 11111111 111111 111111 1111111 11 11111111 1111111 1111111 11111111 11111 11111 11111 11 1111111 11111111 1111111 111111 11111 11111 111111 111 111111111 1111111 1111111111 11111111 111111 11111 111111 111 11111111 1111111 1111111 111111 111 11111 11111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 763
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 100 (very long 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; can, you, he, his, of, to, и are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, o, the, 1048 are repeated.
The author used the same word 105 at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bard is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words bard, певец at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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