This is an analysis of the poem To Marion that begins with:
Marion! why that pensive brow?
What disgust to life hast thou?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeefbgghhcciiddiieeXbjjkkiiddXe ccXjeeeeggllffeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 1010111 1110101 1011111 1110111 1010011 1010101 11010101 11010111 11010101 110111010 1011101 11101111 111010011 11100101 1111101 1110101 01110101 1011111 1010111 11111101 00111101 110101011 110011011 110101010 110101010 111111100 11010111 011101010 011101110 010100010 01110100 10110101 010101001 101101010 110100110 100101010 010101010 100011111 010101011 111110100 011110010 111111010 010101010 1001101010 110111010 1000101011 1001101011 11011101 11011101 001101010 011101010 11110101 11101101 011101010 100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 998
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; howe'er, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, howe'er are repeated.
The author used the same word marion at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, not are repeated).
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