This is an analysis of the poem Droop'st Thou And Fail'st? But These Have Never Tired that begins with:
Droop'st thou and fail'st? but these have never tired;
winds of the region, free, they shine and sing, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefXfbebeggXgghghXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111111010 1001011111 1001000111010 0000110101 1101100101 1101010011 0111001101 1101011001 1000010001 01001001011 1101011101 1111011101 1011111111 01011101001 1100111111 1101111111 1111010111 0101101101 11111100110 1111111111 10110101001 11011110111 01010001111 0101101111 11110101001 1111110101 0111011101 11111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1272
- Average number of words per stanza: 233
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, thou, that, thy are repeated.
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