This is an analysis of the poem A Palinode that begins with:
Some little while ago, I had a mood
When what we know as 'Nature' seemed to me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac acac dddd XeXe afaf aaXa faaa eded aeae bgbg hdhd idid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 11111100101 1101010110 1101000100 1101000101 11010101000 1111011111 0101110100 1111110111 0101010011 01001010101 0111011101 1101010100 1101100111 11001101100 1100111001 1001011101 0101010101 1101011101 1001000111 0101010111 1101011101 1101101100 1111010111 1101000101 1101010001 111100011 1100011101 1101000101 0100110101 1111110101 1101011111 1101010101 1100111101 0101010111 1011010001 1011010111 1011101111 11110001110 0110010111 1111010101 1111011111 11010010101 1010010101 0101000001 0100011111 1101010011 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length 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; and, of, i, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are 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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