This is an analysis of the poem When Poor In All But Hope And Love that begins with:
WHEN, poor in all but hope and love,
I clasped thee to my faithful heart; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefXdgd hihigdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 11101101 11111101 11111101 01111100 01011101 010101001 11011111 1010011111 11010101 11011111 11011101 01110101 0100101101 01010111 11011111 011100111 11010101 11111111 11011101 11111101 01010101 11111101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thou at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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