This is an analysis of the poem Dejection that begins with:
O Father, I am in the dark,
My soul is heavy-bowed:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd bebeccdedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001 110101 11111101 1111001 011 1011 111111110 111101110 11110111 111101 11011111 010101 011 1011 110101110 1101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, me are repeated).
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