This is an analysis of the poem Sadness that begins with:
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Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcbdd Xefafee Xghehii XaiiiaX Xfacaii Xjcjcjj Xfgigaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110011110 10111110100 111000010111 101011101100 1111100101 11010101101 1 11110100110 0100111010111 01111110101 111001101101 00110000110 010111100110 1 1101010011 111111010010 10110100010 01000100010 01011011111 01110010101 1 100101110100 10010010111 1111010111 110111101010 00010001010 01010101110 1 10000101011 00111101110 11011110110 1100101001010 1111100111010 11011101010 1 11000101010 01010101010 11011111010 11110111010 111101101001010 110101100010 1 101011001011 11101010111 1111011011 00101010111 1101010101101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dear, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thicket, reason, water are repeated).
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