This is an analysis of the poem The Haystack In The Floods that begins with:
Had she come all the way for this,
To part at last without a kiss?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbC cddefeggaaahhbbcchhhhddaAC eeefiic bbhXhhbbggX hhbbXeeejjkX eXbbbkklj lXbXXmmX ddXeehhccddnX nbbddhhbbooXkXnhhddbXhhkkkkoX oaaeekkefhhhh efdggjjj kkccpphhhnnhbbkk hheXnnhXhC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,26,7,11,12,9,8,13,29,13,8,16,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110110 01110101 11110111 10111111 01011001 01010101 01010101 11011101 0110001 01011100 101101001 01011101 11011111 01111101 11111101 11010101 11001101 01011101 10111011 110100001 10110100 11111101 11011111 11110001 10110111 01010111 01111101 11010101 01010110 01110101 01011001 11111111 11010101 11010101 11010100 10010101 01110101 110101 11 11011001 11110101 11011101 01011001 11011101 101110101 11011101 11111101 01001011 11010 110011 101111101 01110111 01110111 01000100 011011101 10110101 11011111 01011111 10110101 11110111 1110110010 11011101 111100100 11010101 01110101 11110101 11110111 01011111 01010101 111 11101 010111010 11010101 111001010 11111100 10110111 11110111 110111110 11010101 11010111 1101011100 11110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 100110111 11010111 11010101 11011101 01110101 11110 0101 10010111 01111101 101111101 11010111 111111011 101010111 10111110 11011111 11010111 11111111 111111110 100111101 110111110 110101101 11110101011 101110111 11011101 111101111 10011001 11100111 11110111 00010101 11110111 11111101 11111101 11011101 01010101 01110 1101 10001111 11011001 11000111 01101101 11011111 10110101 10010111 1010111100 11011111 1001010101 110111101 11011011 11010101 11111100 11010111 01011111 01011111 110101100 01111101 00110 001 11011001 01011101 01110101 11111111 01110101 11010101 01011111 11011111 01110111 11001101 111111011 01011111 10110001 11111111 01010111 11010111 101001101 11110111 110001000 11011101 101100101 11011101 01010111 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 166
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, his, you, i, jehane, long, lips are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, and, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word floods at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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