This is an analysis of the poem We Had Him that begins with:
Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing
Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cd aeX ddf cX XFeF ef ad dXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,2,4,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111110 111111011101011011010101 011011110111001 11101011111100101001 001011110011110 11111111101111 0001100110 11110101010001 10001 101101101011010111010111011 11010001010101000010 010100111101011100110110111 1101010101011 111 101111110111111100 111 10001011 11011100111011011101111111111 100100010011110 111111010 0101010101010010101011000100101101011011011101010 11111111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, we, he, his are repeated.
The author used the same word he 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 alone is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word him at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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