This is an analysis of the poem Written A Year After The Events that begins with:
Alas! how am I chang'd! Where be the tears,
The sobs, and forc'd suspensions of the breath,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfghXdifibaagaXXXjj ihjcaidkjfiXXXcckij ddfaheeXfcfajXa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,19,15,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111001 0111010001 1101010001 01111011101 1001100001 0101100001 11001101001 0111101100 1111100111 11011100100 110100100111 110101111 1111011111 0101111111 110011010001 1101011111 00101111111 1101000111 111110001 0101111111 1111110101 1101010101 0110110101 11010 11111 01001010111 110101110010 1001010111 01010010101 1001110101 0101011101 0101111111 11010000101 1101011101 11110000111 1001111111 1101100100 11010111110 0001011111 0011010111 1001011001 1001010001 0101 110111 1101110101 0101011011 110101111 0111111111 10110101101 11110101011 11011010101 0111011111 0111011100 1100111101 0111000100 0101110111 001100010001 111101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 61
- 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; of, my, and, in, with, her, to, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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