This is an analysis of the poem To Know Just How He Suffered—Would Be Dear that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaXX bbcc dcXc edcff bbXX fggce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0111110101 0101010101 01110101001 0101011101 0101110110 1101111100 10010101 10011101 1101010111 110101 111111010 101 1101110 101100 1010001 11110001 1101010101 10111111 11 11110 1010 1101110 111 11010011 1111111100 1101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, was, what are repeated.
The author used the same words to, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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