This is an analysis of the poem A Tale Of Elsinore that begins with:
A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease,
In a forest beneath the branches of the tall pine trees -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggcc bhhh bbcc bbbh iibb ffhh XhXX hhjj ddkk ffdXXffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010111010001111 00100101000111 101110111 1111101011111 11011011100101 11101011011 111101101 1111101111111 1110101011101 10101001010011001 10001101011001 0101011100101001 10111001101 1011011101 1110101000101 10100101001 111010111001 11001010001 111110011011 1011110110101 1101011000101 11110011 01101001011001 1101101001 1101011000001 110010111001001 11101011 11101101111 100101010101 1010101111 111001010101 101011101 10011110100 010110101 11111011111 11111011101 110110101011100 111011010101 101011001010 111101111 1011010101101 1011010101110 1101101011111 11010010010101 1111010111011 11010110101 1101100101 101010101 10110001111 111100100101 111110101 111110111100 10101111001 110100010101 1110101010111 1011010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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