This is an analysis of the poem Hopeless that begins with:
I think through the long, long evenings,
Such thoughts of intensest pain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdXd ceXeXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1101001 111111010 1111101 11001110 100101 01111111 100101 01001010 1000111 111010010 1111101 11111110 1101101 11101011 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
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