This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Of A Girl Who Lived At Seven-Oaks that begins with:

Seven sweet singing birds up in a tree;
Seven swift sailing ships white upon the sea;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011011001 10110110101 10110110001 10111010101 10110110101 101101000101 101100101010 10111010010 1010101010111 1010101110101 10110011011 10110010101 1011011011 01111101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; seven, little are repeated.

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

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

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