This is an analysis of the poem Indifference that begins with:
I said,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,—
"I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbXcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111011110100 10101110111110 1 111011101101 111110011001011 1100111011110110 11110101111101 1111111001111 1100011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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