This is an analysis of the poem Conversion that begins with:

When this world's pleasures for my soul sufficed,
Ere my heart's plummet sounded depths of pain, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba XccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011011101 1111010101 1111000111 111111001 11101011111 1111110001 0101110101 110111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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  • summary of Conversion;
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