This is an analysis of the poem November, 1851 that begins with:
What dost thou here, O soul,
Beyond thy own control,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccdeefggf ffdhh biihddh jjfccfkklccX mmhmmhbbfcccf kffkXnXXccahhaoohaahnnnnaaaakhoohfbfbaaab XeeeoiXoi jfjfecjjckkkc kknaahhhn cfcfjhjhpbpdananhhqqhh rerekfkf hhhbnnnbfffb bdhhjjXbbccbdcckkhhh fffffbXbsfsfcscssossojijiobob ccXchehekpkpococbnbn bcbcqcqc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,7,12,13,41,9,13,9,22,8,12,20,29,20,12,23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111111 011101 100111 111111 11101101 11000100 110101 010101 11111111 1111011 111101 001001100 111111 110111 1101011100 101111010 010111010 01111111 111101 110011 10110101010 10110100 11110100 00111011110 11111011 110101 1111110101 11111100 111111001 1011011111 11111011 110101 100100110010 111111 01011111 11011101100 111101 011111 1011010101 110101 00110001 0111011111 11011111 110011101 1100110101 11010101 01011101 110111011 0001010100 11011101 11 1 11111 1001111001 11011111 01010101 0101101101 110101 010010111 1101011111 100100010 1101110110 1101011111 11111011 01111101 01010011101 101100111 1111001111 0101010011 11010011 11110101 10110101 01110101 101010 10101 111010 111111 00111001 1010101 001011101 1010101101 1110101 1010101 010101 11110111 111011 101011101 1010100101 110100101 11101101 0101011010 00110110101 1110101010 110110101 110010101 110110101 10010101 1110101111 110110101 101011101 1011100101 1110101101 1010100101 111010111 001110100 110011111 1011100101 11101010 1100111011 1010110101 1100100101 11101010 101011111 10111000101 1010101 01111101 1010011111 10110101 101100101 011101101 111101 10101001 1011100101 11010111 010100101 10110101 1111101 1100111101 10011111 11001001101 11100101 101011101 0010010100 1100010 010111 1101010 1100101 111101 10010111 1010110101 1010011111 10101100101 110100101 101010101 101010101 110100101 101001100 11010001 0010110101 110110101 101011101 0101110101 0111101001 10101011101 110001 11011101 010110101 1010110101 1110101 011110101 010101001 100010101 1110111 1010111001 11110100 1011101101 10111101 1010110101 111110101 1010110101 1011111011 101100101 111110101 100100101 1110111111 1100100100 1010100101 1011001001 11111101 100110111 101010101 1010110111 1010010101 1110101 111100 1111111 101010 1010101 1010001 1010110 10101001 1010111 1011101 1010101 10010101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 1110101 1110101 1010011 1010101 1111111 1110101 1111101 1010001 1110101 1001011 10101101 1110001 0100111 10111010 1010101 11111010 0110111 10101010 1010111 10101010 1011100 1010001 1011111 1011101 1000101 1011111 10010001 1000101 1010100 10111011 1010111 10011011 1011111 10101011 0010101 11101101 1110111 10101010 10011101 10101010 1011101 10111110 10100001 10101010 1011101 10100010 1110100 10100010 1010101 11101010 10101101 10101110 101011 10101010 0110100 10111010 1110100 11101110 1101111 01001010 1011101 10111010 101010 10101010 001010 11101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 512
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 266
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, that, all, and, of, on, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, a, all, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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