This is an analysis of the poem Loneliness that begins with:
A lonely soul . . . According to her lights
She has lived on, mid all our worldly strife,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcX cdcXee dadaXX fgfgcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010001 1111111101 1101001111 1111011101 1111010110 1111010100 1111110111 1111001101 1001010001 11011110000 11101000011 0100010101 1111101101 10011010101 1101010001 1100100101 1101010101 0001110101 0101001101 0101010111 1111010101 1111001101 01001100111 1111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word 'this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Loneliness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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