This is an analysis of the poem We'Ll Go No More A-Roving that begins with:
We'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon.
November glooms are barren beside the dusk of June.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabb AabbXAabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101001 0101110010101 01010110010111 1111010110111 1111010101001 0111110110101 1111010110101 1111010111011 1111010101001 0111010111101 1111010111101 1111010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we'll is repeated.
The author used the same word we'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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