This is an analysis of the poem Penelope To Ulysses. that begins with:
Return my dearest Lord, at length return,
Let me no longer your sad absence mourn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaaddbbee aaXaffeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111011101 1111011101 1001111101 1101011111 1010110101 10010110111 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1111110101 11110101111 1101000101 1111110101 01011101001 1011010101 1101011101 0111010011 1111111101 0111111101 11110111101 11110011101 1111010101 1100111101 0101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; no, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e're, why, that are repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase again connects the lines.
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