This is an analysis of the poem I Speak Not, I Trace Not, I Breathe Not Thy Name that begins with:

I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbXXeebbXXdd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111111111 101001101001 101111111101 01111011001 11111011111 0110111111001 101110101011 101101011001 11001011001 01101101011 1011011011000 11111011011 11001011001 01001001010 111111111011 01111101111 11011011011 11111101110 101011011101 11101100101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; i, in, that, not, we, our, and, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and are repeated.

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