This is an analysis of the poem Trinckle, Drops that begins with:

TRICKLE, drops! my blue veins leaving!
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  • Rhyme scheme: XaababaXaXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111010001000000001000 11011011 1001101101 01101111010 011011011 01100111101111 10101 11001110011110011110 1 10111011010 101001010111 101111101111011 10101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 756
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • 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; drops, from, every, i, my, them are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines drops is repeated).

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