This is an analysis of the poem In My Solitary Hours In My Dear Husband His Absence that begins with:

O Lord, Thou hear'st my daily moan
And see'st my dropping tears. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dddd efdf agag dghg gdXd eXXh dfgf iaXa biai dici ieheXhhdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 111101 11011101 110111 11111011 111111 11110101 111111 11011101 011111 01010111 111111 11010011 111111 11010101 110101 11111111 011101 11111101 111101 11011111 010101 10011101 110111 11011101 111110 10111110 111111 1101111 111101 01010111 111011 11110001 110111 11110101 111111 11110111 111111 11010101 011101 11011101 010101 11110101 110101 11110101 110110 01011111 010101 01111111 111101 010111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.

    The author used the same words o, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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