This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love Viii: Yet It Was Plain She Struggled that begins with:
Yet it was plain she struggled, and that salt
Of righteous feeling made her pitiful. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadccdeffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110111 0101010100 1101110100 1101011101 1111111101 1111010101 1101011101 11111111001 0111000101 1101011101 1111010101 1011000111 1111110111 0001010111 0011010011 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them is repeated.
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