This is an analysis of the poem Reunited that begins with:
The hours were long with you away,
Although I thought I could forget; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe caca cfcf agag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010101 11111101 11011101 111101 11011111 110111111 11110001 1111 10111111 110101111 101111000 1111 11011101 11110111 11110101 11110 11010111 11000101 110101101 1111 11010101 01010101 11011101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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