This is an analysis of the poem Ennui (Thou) that begins with:
Thou art immured in some sad garden sown with dust
Of fruit of Sodom that bedims the summer ground,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbc dcddcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110001110101 010101100101 110001010101 110111010101 0101110110000 110100010101 110101110101 1111011100101 110101110101 11111110101 001101011111 110011010101 110111010101 1110000010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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