This is an analysis of the poem A Rhapsody Of A Southern Winter Night that begins with:
Oh! dost thou flatter falsely, Hope?
The day hath scarcely passed that saw thy birth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccddbc eefgffgfhchcddiiiiiihhejjkkeehhggcchhfcfdiiXdcdcccclflffXcggeieichhihchihdcchdh fmXfiiiifeefcccbbmmdnnadaccaooaoaao
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,79,35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101 0111011111 11111100111 110110111101 111111 1111010111 011101 0111011101 0101010001 110101 1111010101 01010101 1100010101 0011110001 1111110101 1111110101 1001110111 0111110001 1101011111 1101110101 01001001111 1111011111 1100111101 1100011011 0101010011 1101110101 11010101001 0101110101 0101111101 1011111101 1110110101 1101011111 010100010010 101110100010 1111111101 1111111111 0100110111 11010101001 0111000101 1101110111 0111110101 1111111101 011101 1011011011 1101010111 1110000111 11001110101 10011011011 1011111101 11011111010 0101010101 1101110101 111110001100 0101010 1110110111 11010101010 01010101001 01011111011 1011010111 1011011101 1001110001 1001110011 11011110111 1001110101 0111011111 0011010100 1101010001 1111110101 1111010101 1101010111 01011110111 1101011011 1011010111 1111010111 0101010111 1101010101 0101011101 01011010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111110101 01010110101 1111110101 1111011111 0111000111 11001111101 10111101001 11001010101 1110010111 00111101101 1011011101 01010011101 110101 110111 010101001101 1101110001 11001010101 0011110111 0111010101 1001011101 1101111101 01001010101 1101110101 1101010111 11011111001 1110111101 1111010011 11011111 1101110001 100101 1111110101 0111010111 1101011111 01111111001 110111 1101111111 0101000111 1101110101 101111111 1111000101 1101000101 10101011101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1773
- Average number of words per stanza: 331
- Amount of lines: 123
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, and, to, i, its, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase blest connects the lines.
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