This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 5 - I Wandered Out A While Agone, that begins with:

I wandered out a while agone,
And went I know not whither;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababX cacaca dadada eaeaeaXcacaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110 1111110 111101001 0111010 110100101 0101110 11111101 1101010 11011101 1111110 111111011 1111110 1101101 1101110 11111101 1111010 11101101 1111110 01000101 1101010 11110111 1110010 11111101 0101110 111111001 1111010 11010101 1101110 11011001 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word neither at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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