This is an analysis of the poem Lines On Reading Some Verse Entitles 'A Farewell To Love' that begins with:
Oh, stern indeed must be that minstrel's heart,
In the world's dusty highway doomed to move,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac aXaX dada eXeX dfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101101 0011011101 10111101011 1101111101 0111110111 1011100101 1111010001 1011100111 0100100010010 1101010101 010100111010 00110111010 1101011111 1011101101 01110001101 11010010001 1101010111 1001010101 1101111100 110111001010 11011010101 1101010101 10101000101 100001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thy, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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