This is an analysis of the poem Oh Say Not That My Heart Is Cold that begins with:
Oh say not that my heart is cold
To aught that once could warm it -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eXeXbfbX fgfgdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 0111110 11011101 11110010 1111000111 1101010 11110101 1111010 11110111 0111010 11111101 0101010 01110101 0101010 01010101 11011000 11011101 0101011 01011101 1101111 110101010 0111010 110101010 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; that is repeated.
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