This is an analysis of the poem A Jacobite's Exile that begins with:
The weary day runs down and dies,
The weary night wears through:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb ccdc XXefXf gcXc hcec hcicdc jckc hdgd acdcic ilXl eXdc achcfc XeXe deje akakkk accc eXdX kcXcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,6,4,4,6,4,4,6,4,4,6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011111 010111 11011001110 11001011 11010111 110101 1111101111 110111 110101110 110110 11010101 110101 101011111 110111 11011110 111001 11111001 111101 11111111 111111 110010111 1101001 11111111 111111 1011101110 0101101 101111111 011111 11100111 111100 110110101 111101 01110111 011111 011110111 111101 111101101 111101 101111011 010101 110111111 011110 11110101 1010111 111100111 111101 11111111 110101 111110111 111111 11110110 110101 101110101 010111 10111101111 011101 11000111 011111 11111101 010101 11010111 111101 111110111 111101 010101001 011111 1011110111 111111 11111111 110111 0111001110 011111 1111111111 111111 11110101 011001 11100111 111111 11110111 1011101 1010101000 10101011 111110111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, i, would, we, ill, they, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words o, on, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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