This is an analysis of the poem In Trouble And Shame that begins with:
I look at the swaling sunset
And wish I could go also ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXXXXba XbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 1111110 10110101101 111111 101111111 1111001 11110 111101010 11001010100 11111 11111 1101111010110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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