This is an analysis of the poem The Girl I Left Behind Me that begins with:
With sweet Regret — (the dearest thing that Yesterday has left us) —
We often turn our homeless eyes to scenes whence Fate has reft us.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb ffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011101111 110111010111111 110101011101011 010001010111011 110101010101010 111101011101010 110111010101011 01010011110111011 0101110111001110 110111010101010 110101011111011 101100010111011 111111010101110 101111010111110 110101010101111 1101000110111011 11110001111101 11111001010101 1111010100110011 111101110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, so are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, me are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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