This is an analysis of the poem The Homely Pathetic that begins with:
The dews are heavy on my brow;
My breath comes hard and low;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacded dfXfXfffXdcecdfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 111111 11011101 011111 11111101 111101 11111101 010111 01110111 111101 010011101 011101 11010101 011101 11011100 111111 11110101 110101 11010101 110111 11011101 111101 01011111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; where is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rail is repeated).
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