This is an analysis of the poem To Hannah that begins with:
Spirit girl to whom 'twas given
To revisit scenes of pain, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dedefgfg fhfhffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 0010101 00111110 1110101 10111010 1110111 11100010 0011111 11101010 1010101 11111110 1110111 10101111 1010101 10110011 1110101 10100001 1011101 10111011 1110111 11101111 1110101 10101011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of To Hannah;
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