This is an analysis of the poem Penelope that begins with:
Love, like a wind, shook wide your blosmy eyes,
You trembled, and your breath came sobbing-wise... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaB ccB ddB ccB XXB eeb ffb ggbXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 1101111101 11111 1011111101 00111101111 11111 10010100011 1101111111 11111 1101011111 110001011011 11111 1110110111 1110111101 11111 1111011101 1111111111 00111 1101110100 11111100001 11111 1101000111 1110100111 00011 1111111101 10011011111 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, me, love, that are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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