This is an analysis of the poem Deserted that begins with:

No, mother, I am not sad:
Why think me sad? I was always still, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ececfbbf cgcghihi cjcjakak gbgblXld fcfccccc cXXXmjmj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 111111111 101010111111 1110111110 1111100101 10111101001 1111101011 11101001 1101111 1111101011 1111111101 110101001 11101111101 1010110111 1010111101 1101001 11111001 11111111101 1110101001 1101111111 1110001101 111100111 0011011111 0110101 1101011 1011011111 110100111 1011001101 1011011111 111101101 1110100111 0111101 1111101 1111111011 11100111111 1111111000 1100111001 011101110010 10101111111 1101111 11001111 111111111001 101111111 111101001101 100111111 101110101 111011101 111101 1011111 111101000 001001101110 0101111100 1111101111 1001111001 111111111 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, i, it, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, it are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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