This is an analysis of the poem Missing that begins with:
In the cool, sweet hush of a wooded nook,
Where the May buds sprinkle the green old mound,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXcc cecefgfgcc hhhhXiXicc fhXcXdbdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011100101 1011100111 10110110101 101100101 111100101 00111101010 110110111 1010010011 1101 1111001001 01010011 011100101 1111100111 10101001001 110011111 010110101 0010101101 10110101 0101 1011110101 0100101101 0010101111 010101101 111100101 10101101001 10101001010 111100101 11001110 10111 10010110101 110011111 00101101001 10011101 10100100101 1100110111 10111001010 111111001 11010010 0101 0100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, their, her, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word grass at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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