This is an analysis of the poem A Vagrant Heart that begins with:
O to be a woman! to be left to pique and pine,
When the winds are out and calling to this vagrant heart of mine....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbcc eeffggXchhdd eeffiiffccjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1000100010111 101111100010101 10101010111101 10110011110101 1011101110001 1000101010101 101010101010101 0111110111101 101010101110101 11100010110101 101010101011100 01000101011101 10000101010101 00111010111101 00111110110111 10101010110111 1101010110101 101001101010101 11010101010100 11010111110101 110010101110111 01010101010101 01010101110111 01011111110111 11110101010101 111111101010111 11010101010001 101111100011101 1111101010111110 1111101010111010 1110101010101 11111101011101 0111110011111 0111110011101 0111110011111 11011101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 722
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be, and, that, chatter, of, all, you, for, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, would are repeated.
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- summary of A Vagrant Heart;
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