This is an analysis of the poem Tokens that begins with:
Green mwold on zummer bars do show
That they've a-dripped in winter wet;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccddXa XeXeXXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11010101 01111101 01111111 01010101 11110101 11010111 01011101 111101110 010010101 01100101 101011101 11011111 101011101 11011101 11011111 11011111 01111011 110010111 010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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