This is an analysis of the poem A Man's Repentance that begins with:
To-night when I came from the club at eleven,
Under the gaslight I saw a face-... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc dede baXa fgfg hbhb XiXi dddd haha Xigig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110011010 100101101 0101111010 011010101 1111111110 1100101111 11111011010 10101100111 111001101110 1110101101 11001001010 101011001001 111011101010 0101100111 1011110010 1100101101 111001101010 1010100111 11011001110 1110111101 110010110010 01110111 11011010010 100101011 111011010010 011101111 11011111110 1100111111 111001111110 01011001111 11111111010 110101111 11101011110 01101011001 11111001010 111100111 101111111 111100111 110110011011 1110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she are repeated.
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