This is an analysis of the poem A Sick Soul that begins with:
Physician of my sin-sick soul,
To thee I bring my case;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded efef fgfg fefe hhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001111 011111 11010001 111111 10010101 111111 11011101 010111 11011101 111101 11011101 110101 01100101 111101 01010011 010011 01111111 110011 11001111 010111 01010101 1100011 11001111 111011 11110111 111101 11110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; my, i, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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