This is an analysis of the poem The Valley Of The Black Pig that begins with:
The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears
Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011101110011 1001001110101 110101010101 0011001010111 111111010101 011101111101 10100011001101 100011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
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