This is an analysis of the poem A Longing that begins with:
O Lord! I have become weary of human assemblages!
When the heart is sad no pleasure in assemblages can be...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa XX ba ba Xa aa aa ba aa Xa Xa aa Xa Xa ba Xa Xa Xa aaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101100101000 101011100100010 110101011010 0101111001 101000101011011 01100101110 101011100100 1001001110 11011010001 0011101001000 0101101111001 10011101011110 11101101011110 100101001110001000 0100010100111 0101100110110 101011101110 011100100100100 0100101101100 0100101001101100 0101001001001 1010101011000 011010101100100 10110101010100 101011000101 010010010110100 111001001001 1101110101110 101010011 11100100110 010111110100 111011011010110 1110101000101001 101101100100100 10111001010100 110110001011000 001011110111 11110101011100 11000100110010 01010101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, may, my, be, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words freed, the, may are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines be is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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