This is an analysis of the poem Lucy Gray, Or Solitude that begins with:
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray:
And, when I crossed the wild, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fcfX cecX gbgb cgcg hehe fbfb bdbd bXbf ijij fhfh gege abab kbkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111101 110011101 010101 11111101 111011 01011101 010101 11110111 010101 10110101 010101 11000101 100111 11010101 110101 11001101 110101 01011111 1100011 10010101 110101 11011101 010001 11000101 0100101 010101001 110111 01110101 110111 110010101 110101 01010111 110111 11110111 010101 11110111 110101 11110101 011011 11110101 11011111 10010101 010101 11000111 110101 11010111 110111 11110111 010101 11011101 100111 11000101 110111 00010001 110101 11011001 100101 11111101 010101 101111101 110101 11010101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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