This is an analysis of the poem Alone that begins with:
Strange thoughts come to the man alone;
'Tis then, if ever, he talks with God,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabccb dccdeffeXaaaaaeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 110101101 110110101 0010110111 111100111 011100011 11011101 110101101 1011100101 00101001010 1101001010 1100101111 1011110111 1011000111 1011100101 1010011000 110100101 1100100101 1100101101 00100100111 110110101 110110101 1110110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, what, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
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- summary of Alone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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