This is an analysis of the poem Longing that begins with:

My heart is full of inarticulate pain,
And beats laborious. Cold ungenial looks...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXc dedeff fgfXcc gfgfhh fbfbXc ijijee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010001001 11010011001 0111010101 1001110101 1101111101 1101111101 0101110111 1101111101 1111010111 1111010011 1101111101 1011111011 11110101001 1101110101 11001111111 11011101000 1111110011 1111001101 1101010101 1001111101 1001110111 0101010101 100101100001 1101111101 11010111010 1101010101 11110101110 1001010101 11011101010 1101110011 1101011101 1001011101 1011010101 1101111101 1101010101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; come, your, me, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.

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  • summary of Longing;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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