This is an analysis of the poem How Sweet I Roam'D that begins with:
How sweet I roam'd from field to field,
And tasted all the summer's pride... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bcbc dede fXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 1010110 10010101 110110111 11010111 11110101 11010101 01111101 110101101 11100101 11100101 11011111 11011101 11011101 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
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