This is an analysis of the poem Out Of The Sighs that begins with:

Out of the sighs a little comes,
But not of grief, for I have knocked down that...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaacbdbb Xeceeac fcfcdea Xfbggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101 1101111111 0101000101 0111 0101010110 111101 11011100 01010111 110110010001 1011010101 11110 10111101 1111 11010101010 10101011 111101 0101010101 100110010 11110001 111101010 01001101110 0101111100 11101 010111110 01010111 1011010011 11010010 111001110 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, 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.

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  • summary of Out Of The Sighs;
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