This is an analysis of the poem A Lost Chord that begins with:
SEATED one day at the Organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XaXa dede fgfg bhhh caaa Xaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 11101111 11101010 100101 111111110 1111101 11111010 10100101 01001011 10101101 101111010 00101001 01001110 1110101 010010010 010101 0111000010 001011 110010010 1000101 111111010 111101 110010010 110001 01011110 0101101 010110010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, that 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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