This is an analysis of the poem Owen Aherne And His Dancers that begins with:

A STRANGE thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110111111110 0101010101101 11110101111011 0111110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.

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