This is an analysis of the poem In Faith that begins with:
When the soft sweet wind o' the south went by,
I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddcc Xabb aaee ffgg cchh ddXa bbcc iiaaXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011110111 1100100111 111010101 111110101 0011110111 110100101 1100110111 0100110101 11111101 1101111001 10110110101 101111111 11110110 111100111 10010111 10101110101 0010110101 100101111 01100111101 111100101 110101111 0110101101 110110111 01101101011 11011111 1010011101 110110101 110110101 1110100011 001111101 110011010001 1110100111 1111111111 11111110101 11100110111 101010111 1111011101 11100110101 0111110111 1111011101 001110011 111011111 110110111 11101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, for, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word sometime 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 you connects the lines.
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