This is an analysis of the poem I Wrung My Hands that begins with:
I wrung my hands under my dark veil. . .
"Why are you pale, what makes you reckless?"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XbXb aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111 10111111100 011111111 0101010 1100111110 01110100 11111100100 110111101 1101010101 01111111010 11111110100 111011110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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