This is an analysis of the poem Second Sunday After Christmas that begins with:
And wilt thou hear the fevered heart
To Thee in silence cry?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXab cdcdbbbd dedefffe ghghbbbh ijijgggj bkbklllk jgjgaaag mlmlXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 010101 1111001101 100101 11010101 11011110 01011101 111101 111100101 111001 101101001 110101 11010111 11110111 01110101 110111 11111101 111001 01010101 010101 100110001 01110101 11010101 110101 11001111 1101010 1101010101 1101010 110100101 101110101 110100101 11110010 11011101 010101 00011101 010101 11010101 01010101 111111101 110111 01010101 010101 01010001 010101 10010111 01010110 11011101 110101 11011101 0101001 01010111 0100101 10110101 01111101 01111111 111101 01011100 111101 10011101 1101001 010101100 10111101 11111111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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.
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