This is an analysis of the poem Look Up, Desponding Hearts! See, Morning Sallies that begins with:

Look up, desponding hearts! See, Morning sallies
From out her tents behind the screening hill,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 11100111010 0101010101 110100101010 1011110101 10110100110 1011110101 11111101110 0101000111 1111010001 11011100101 01011011101 1101110101 1001010001 1011001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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