This is an analysis of the poem Constancy In Inconstancy that begins with:
An Old Man’s Confession
SHE has a large still heart--this lady of mine, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a abXacdaefgXcbfffcdhdhXijffadaeickkcccXalfceXfglcgfafcigaXXcjXXfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,64,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010 11011101001 1110111110 1101011101 10010100101 01010110001 01010101001 11011111001 1101010101 1101110111 01011111001 1101011101 1111000101 1111011100 11110011001 1001010111 01010101001 010010011001 1101110111 0101111111 1101110111 1101010111 0111010100 1111010111 1011010111 1011110001 0101110101 1110110101 11011101001 1111010101 10111101011 11110100101 1101011101 1001011011 01010111001 11011111001 1001100111 1111110111 1101110111 1101110111 0111111101 01010100101 01111111001 1101011101 1101111100 01011100101 01010001001 1111101011 1101010101 1111111111 1111110101 1111110011 1100010111 1111001101 01101010101 11010110101 1111111111 11101101110 1101111011 101110101 1111011111 11000100111 1110010111 1111010101 1111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1472
- Average number of words per stanza: 270
- Amount of lines: 65
- 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; she, of, and, her, eyes, as, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, why are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fields, eyes are repeated).
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