This is an analysis of the poem Robert Of Lincoln that begins with:

Merrily swinging on briar and weed,
Near to the nest of his little dame,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababCCddE ffffCCggE hdhdcCiiE efefCCggE efefCCffE jajaCCeeE aiaiCCeeEXgdgdCCggE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011011 100100101 10010111 1001001001 111111 111 11101101 100101010 111 100100101 10011101 110101101 11100101 111111 111 11011101 111100111 111 10010101 101100111 10110101 100110101 1111111 111 11101111 11101111 111 101110101 11100101 101101001 10100101 111111 111 10110101 111001011 111 11110101 100100101 11010111 100100101 111111 111 10111011 101111001 111 110101101 11111011 100101011 100110101 111111 111 01101000 110111011 111 100101101 100111001 100101101 10101101 111111 111 111111111 11111101 111 10101011 11101111 100100111 111111111 111111 111 111111011 100101101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; chee, he are repeated.

    The author used the same word robert at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word chee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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