This is an analysis of the poem A Riddle Song that begins with:
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,
Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXacXdbXX bbXb dbedX ee eebeebbeXbdXaXXcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,5,2,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011101 01110101010111001 1111110011 110101001110101 0100 11111101010101 1011010010011010 10100011101010 1101010101010001 1101010111010 1100101110011010101 010111110111 100001101010101 01010101 0100010100110010 0101001001 01011101 110001001 1101011111 11010100101 1011001 1101010100 111101010100 110010 1101111110 110100100111101 110101011110 110101011010 11100111011100001 10001 1101010000 11011001010100011 101101010100010011 11111 11011101110101010 1 11010101010100 1011001111110 011011010010110 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; nor, and, which, or, of, it, how, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words which, or, two, how are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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