This is an analysis of the poem For Annie that begins with:
Thank Heaven! the crisis-
The danger is past,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXb cdedfd XGhgiG jjcjfj XkhkXk lbfbhXhb lgcgXg hgmgbghg bXhlXl mlhlhlfl mmdmdm ibmbXb bnlnln XGeGmGbGiGXhmimbmbm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,8,6,8,6,8,6,6,6,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 01001 1010010 01011 101011000 01011 1011 111011 111011 111111 111011 111011 11111000 1011 110010 11011 1110101 1011 010110 010110 11001 0110010 1111100 10010 0100100 01001 110010 110011 001011000 11011 110110 11001 10100100 1001 1010010 01010 1110010 11011 001011 001011 000110101 1101 00101101 1101 111010 01001 1110010 11011 11101 001001 1011110 01101 110110 110100 010110 010010 011000 010110 1111100 10010 010010 010010 011010 010010 0110100 10010 1101100 10010 01001 1010010 1001 0010010 110011 11001 111110 01101 1001 0010001 1011010 11011 1110010 01101 0010010 01101 11111000 1011 1001 111011 11110100 1011 001111 111011 11100111 1011 1110010 110010 1001 1010010 01001 0010110 001001 0010110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, horrible, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words might, the, she, to, that are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase horrible connects the lines.
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- summary of For Annie;
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