This is an analysis of the poem The Bereaved One that begins with:
She sleeps—and I see through a shadowy haze,
Where the hopes of the past and the dreams that I cherished... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghgh aiaieded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101001 1010011011110 001101011001 1010010110110 11101001111 011111011010 101101011001 110010110110 111001101001 1111010111110 101011001011 1110010010010 111001001001 110110110111 1010001101001 1010010110011 111111111011 111010010010 101001011100 011011010010 001011111001 111010110010 111101101001 110010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, my, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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