This is an analysis of the poem Alone that begins with:
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaaaaccaaddeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101110 11001111 11011111 110001001 001111110 110111010 11011011 11111101 10111001 00110111 010010011 01001111 00101010 00110010 0011111 0010101 0010001 1011101 0010101 1011101 10101011 0010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 886
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, not, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, my, from are repeated.
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- summary of Alone;
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