This is an analysis of the poem I Leave Thee For Awhile that begins with:
I leave thee for awhile, my love, I leave thee with a sigh;
The fountain spring within my soul is playing in mine eye; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddcc cceecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110111111001 010010111010011 11110101110111 11111101110111 10010111111001 11011111110111 1111011111001000 100110101111101 11011101110101 01011111111101 10011110010101 11111101011111 11110111110111 11110101011101 11111101110101 11010111010111 10011101111011 11111101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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