This is an analysis of the poem Infinitely that begins with:
The hounds of despair, the hounds of the autumnal wind,
Gnaw with their howling the black echoes of evenings. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX baaa aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101000101 101100110010 0100101000100 1011101010 01011010101 1001011010 10110000100001011 0001000010101 11111111 11110100100010100 11000101 10111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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