This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas To A Hindoo Air that begins with:
Oh! my lonely--lonely--lonely--Pillow!
Where is my lover? where is my lover?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba aXXX acca adda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010 1011010110 000111101010 110110101010 1110101010 11111101011 101111000110 11111011011 11111101010 11110111010 0011011101110 1111111110010 10111111010 010111101011 110100110011 11110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, lonely are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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