This is an analysis of the poem I Dare Not that begins with:
1.
I hear strange voices in the air.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaab X cccb X ddde X fffe X eeeg X hhhg X iiij X eeej X kkka X ddda X llld X mmmd X hhhn X ooon
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110001 11011111 01010101 1111 1 11111111 11110111 11110101 0111 1 11111011 11110011 11110101 1111 1 11110111 11110111 01110101 1111 1 11110101 11111101 11110101 1101 1 11010101 01011001 11010101 1101 1 10011111 01010101 11010111 1111 1 11110111 10111101 00110101 1111 1 101101001 11010111 11010101 1111 1 01010111 01011111 10011101 1101 1 10010111 11101101 11011101 1101 1 1100111010 1011101010 110100110 1101 1 01110111 10110111 110110011 1101 1 01011101 11110011 11111001 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, and, should, i, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, though, why, this are repeated.
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