This is an analysis of the poem News For The Delphic Oracle that begins with:
THERE all the golden codgers lay,
There the silver dew,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdcXeeXeXfXfghdhacgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10101 10110111 10111 11011011 110101 110101001 11000 10011101 011101 11011101 110101 1010101 110101 11001111 111001 001010101 111111 11010101 101101 01011101 1101001 100010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 745
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 words there, and are repeated.
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- summary of News For The Delphic Oracle;
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