This is an analysis of the poem Hannah Thomburn that begins with:
They lifted her out of a story
Too sordid and selfish by far,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcdcd efefadad egeghghg eieijkjk jljljfjf jijiiiii mimihghg ngngckXk kikikdkd gogoiiii ogogaeae igigjpjpXaBaBkfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010 11011011 111010010 01111101 111110010 11110001 1010011110 11101001 0011010010 111001101 1111011110 11001011 1110011110 11001101 0010010110 101011101 011111110 11001001 1010011010 11001001 110111010 101011111 1011011010 101101001 1111010110 101001111 10101011111 01011101 1111010110 111101111 1010010110 01001001 1111010010 001011111 110111110 11011101 1111011010 111101101 1011110010 101111000 1011111110 101111111 1011110110 101101111 1110110110 01001101 110111110 101011001 011011011010 111111101 1110010110 11001011 1111010110 101011011 1110010010 111010011 1001111010 001011001 1110010010 101011001 1010011111 110011001 11111110 111001101 10010010110 1011101101 1110010110 101101001 1001011010 11111001 010110110 01101001 1010010111 01110001 0011110011 101111011 011111110 01101001 1111110110 101111101 1111110111 111101101 1010110110 101001101 1110110010 111011001 1110010010 11011011 111010110 11101011 111011110 11101101 1111010010 1011011 011110010 11101011 1110010010 11011011 111010010 01111101 1110111110 01011011 1110010100 111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, oh, and, could, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, oh, i, through, there, a, with, they, that, and are repeated.
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