This is an analysis of the poem Bereavement Of The Fields that begins with:
Soft fall the February snows, and soft
Falls on my heart the snow of wintry pain; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abababb cacacaa adaXadd aeaeXee bfbfbfb gagagag fgfgfgg fbfbbff hieihii ffffXfX AhajajX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1111010101 1101111111 0111100101 1101101101 0111111101 100101010101 1101010111 1101000101 01010011011 1001010101 11011100101 0101110101 010110100101 1101010111 1111010101 0101110111 11011101100 1111110111 1101010101 1101011111 1101010111 0101010101 1100010001 10010100111 11010101101 11010100101 1101010111 1101011101 1111110111 1001010101 1010010011 101010101 11110111001 0101001111 1001010101 1101100001 1101010111 1100110101 1110110101 1001010011 0100010001 1101010111 0110110111 0101001110 0101001101 1101110101 1101010001 10101110001 1111011101 10110010111 01001011101 01011101101 01010100111 1101111101 1001011001 11010111110 1001010001 0101010001 1100010011 10011101010 0100110101 010110001 10110111011 1101110100 0101011011 10010101001 11001011111 11010010111 11110101000 1101010111 1101010100 1101011111 0101010101 0101010101 0101010011 110101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, his, she, of, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words beyond, and, he are repeated.
The author used the same word soft at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word song at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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