This is an analysis of the poem Mesalliance that begins with:
I am troubled to-night with a curious pain;
It is not of the flesh, it is not of the brain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a b c c b d d X e e X c c f d d f d d f c c X d d X c cXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001001001 001001001001 110011010 111101101 001101101011 11010010 110100111 1010101101 00100100 111101111001 1100100101 11011010 10101111001 11100111101 11110110 1101011001 1101101101 001010010 10001101001 011011101 101010110 1110111111 1111101111 11011110 11100101111 1010101101 10101010 11101000101 111111111 111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 39
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, he, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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