This is an analysis of the poem You Often Watched Him that begins with:
You often watched him on the high life's level, -
The gaily-selfish or with gloomy sight,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXbaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101110 0101010101 1101110111 11011111010 1101010111 0101111101 10111110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
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