This is an analysis of the poem A-Roving that begins with:
WHEN the sap runs up the tree.
And the vine runs o’er the wall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaeafgfg hihigigi jdjdkaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1011101 1010101 0010101 1111111 1011100 1010001 10101001 1010111 1010101 1010100 0010111 1011101 11101001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010111 1010001 1010001 1010111 0010111 1011101 0010101 1010101 1110101 1110101 0010101 1110101 0011001 0000101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
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- summary of A-Roving;
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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