This is an analysis of the poem Sabbaths, W.I. that begins with:
Those villages stricken with the melancholia of Sunday,
in all of whose ocher streets one dog is sleeping...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bbc defXg X c h eg ee d c X Xdea fe c hdcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,5,1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,4,2,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010001000011 010110111010 1010110101001001 01000111001111 1010101 0101011101 010110101010 010110111111 1010011001100 101101001 1010011110000101 011010111 11010101010110 11110110010110 101111 10011010010 11010010101 1111101 11111100101 11110101011110 1001101 111010011101 1101101101010 01000100 110110 111111 111101101101010 11111101101 111101010111 11110 11011110010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, those, sundays are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, those are repeated.
The author used the same word those at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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