This is an analysis of the poem I Measure Every Grief I Meet (561) that begins with:
I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dccc efcf dgag hiji gece hbjb hXbX hfbXXjcic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100111 010101 11000111 1111001 11001101 100101 11110101 011101 11000101 101101 11011101 011001 11111101 110111 11010001 111101 11001011 110101 11010101 110101 11111101 110001 01000101 010001 01110111 1001001 10111111 110101 11011101 01111000 11000101 010101 11111101 010101 01010001 010100 01010001 111101 11010001 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, to, of 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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