This is an analysis of the poem Desolation that begins with:
It seems to me that I have lived alone—
Alone, as one that liveth in a dream:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcXddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101111101 0111110001 1111010101 0101010101 0110011111 010010101 0101010101 1001010101 01011100101 1110010101 1110011111 11001011111 0101011101 11000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Desolation;
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- idea of the verse;
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