This is an analysis of the poem If Sometimes In The Haunts Of Men that begins with:
If sometimes in the haunts of men
Thine image from my breast may fade,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXccc dedXcXca XcXcdede babXbXbd afafaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100101 11001111 010101001 01001101 111111010 11011101 110100011 01111101 11010101 11111101 110000101 01001100 11110011 11111010 11111101 11110101 010101100 00110101 011101001 1101101 110100111 01010101 11010101 11010101 11110011 11110101 11110101 01010101 11001101 11110010 11010101 11110101 11111110 11011111 100110101 11010111 111101110 01010111 111101010 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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