This is an analysis of the poem What Shall I Do—it Whimpers So that begins with:
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What shall I do—it whimpers so—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbacca abcXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110101 01010101 11110111 110011 11010011 10110001 110101 01111 1111101 1001011101 10111101 11010 101 110 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, or, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words would, or are repeated.
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