This is an analysis of the poem Passion Past that begins with:
WERE I a boy, with a boy's heart-beat
At glimpse of her passing adown the street, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdC eeffcdC fXaacdC gghhcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100111 1100101001 0011111011 101011101 1100110101 11101110 10101 010100111 111111101 11100101 101100101 1111111101 11101010 10101 11101011 1111010111100 00100110111 11001011001 1110100111 11101110 10101 11101011 110011101 1110111001 1110111111 111010111 10101010 110000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, never, her, and are repeated.
The author used the same word were at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase never connects the lines.
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