This is an analysis of the poem Pelang that begins with:

Pelang! Pelang! Mon cher garçon,
I t'ink of you--t'ink of you night and day--... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abBb cdXd eAXa afgX hXXb XfXX eihi ifdf XXXi jafa XXaX fbdb eXkX ahXh bfkf aciX XjbX ifXf Xfhf XXcX gbeb cdbD XlXl behX acdX XaeA fdaDXabBb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10101101 1101101111 111100101 01111101 010110101 110010101 01111111 111110101 1110110111 1011110101 1100110101 1101101101 111110111 010111011 11111111 1101110111 111111111 11011011 1111111011 11111111101 111011110 1111011111 111110110 1110011110 1111111111 1101101111 11001100101 110110111 100101011111 1010111101 1010110101 1101101111 010100101 101110111 1111111110 11101111101 1000110111 1101110101 1101110101 111101111 11100100111 1010110110 1111100101 1111011110 1111101111 0010100111 1011110101 1110101101 110011111 111010101 101001111 0101001111 1101110101 1100101111 1100110101 100110111 11101101 110111111 011111101 111100111 111101101 11110101 1111010101 1101110110 01111111 1101110011 111111101 10111110111 111111111 101111001 11100100110 1101101101 111111100110 1101100111 1011100101 1011011111 1010111111 11110100110 11110110101 111011110 0110110111 11101101111 10110110101 1110111010 111110101 111100111 1010110111 110010101 110111110 101111111 10011101 11011111 111110111 110101101 111110101 111011111 101111101 010100101 110110101 111111110 1110100101 011101101 101110111 1011110101 110111111 010111101 110010101 110010101 11101101 1101101111 111100101 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, i, on, an', of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', i, blow, no are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pelang connects the lines.

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