This is an analysis of the poem When You Were Reading Those Tormented Lines that begins with:
When you were reading those tormented lines
In which the heart's resonant flame sends out glowing streams...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX bcXX cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 0101100111101 110101011 101010101 1101011101 10011101011 0101010100 10010011 110101100101 0101010101010 110011010011 011100110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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