This is an analysis of the poem You Must Not Wonder, Though You Think It Strange that begins with:
You must not wonder, though you think it strange,
To see me hold my lowering head so low; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111011101 01111100111 1111110101 0101111111 0111110101 010100101 1101110111 1101010101 0111111001 01010101010 0111110001 11010101010 1111111111 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of is repeated.
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