This is an analysis of the poem Song Xii. - O'Er Desert Plains, And Rushy Meres that begins with:
O'er desert plains, and rushy meres,
And wither'd heaths I rove;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb cdcd eded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111010 110111 11111101 110111 1111010010 0101011 11011101 010111 11111101 110111 11001001 110111 01110101 110101 10111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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