This is an analysis of the poem Fidelity that begins with:
A BARKING sound the Shepherd hears,
A cry as of a dog or fox;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc debeffgg bhfhXXdd Xgigddfff jeXeddeX bgdgkkee ijajeebbXedfdkkff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,9,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 01100111 11110001 010101 11110101 01000101 11000101 1011101 01010101 01011111 01010101 0100001 10110101 11010111 11110101 10010101 01010101 11110101 01010001 010101 100100100 010101110 11110101 01010111 10110101 11010101 01010101 010001 10011101 11110101 11010101 10011101 11010100101 11010101 01011101 1011110001 110111 11110111 010100101 0011000001 11010100 010111001 011101101 11010101 011101 11000101 11111111 01010101 110100101 11010111 00100111 01010001 010101 011111001 01001101 01101111 01001101 11111101 101101001 01110101 110101 11011111 11111101 11110101 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; nor, or, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
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