Analysis of Repeat That, Repeat
Repeat that, repeat,
Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,
With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound
Off trundled timber and scoops of the hillside ground, hollow hollow hollow ground:
The whole landscape flushes on a sudden at a sound.
| Scheme | AABBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01101 11010111101001 10101010001 110100110111010101 011101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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