This is an analysis of the poem Self-Congratulation that begins with:
Ellen, you were thoughtless once
Of beauty or of grace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacdedfgfghgfg fXcXXiai eajaXkck gcjcbXah akfkgihi ieaeacicXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 010101 101100010 100111 110111001 110111 110011101 011001 111101011 010101 10111101 1101001 10111111 110111 11011101 101101 11110101 1101010 11111101 0101010 11010101 110001 11111101 111101 110100101 0111001 01010001 010111 01010101 010101 01011001 1100101 11111111 1101101 01010011 010101 111111010 010100 11010101 011101 111100011 110111 11010011 011101 11110101 111111 11111101 111111 11111101 111101 111111011 110101 11011101 110101 01010011 010101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, no, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, no, and are repeated.
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