This is an analysis of the poem Despair that begins with:
O'er the midnight moorlands crying,
Thro' the cypress forests sighing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabaaab cccdaaad aaaeXaae aaaeXdde aaafaaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111110 10101010 00111010 1010101 00101010 10101110 10111010 110001 11111010 10110010 101101010 1110111 11111010 11101010 11101110 1010001 10101110 10010110 10101010 1010101 10100100 101011010 10101010 1110101 10101010 10101010 10101010 1010101 10101110 10101010 10001010 1010101 10101110 00101010 00101010 1110111 10101110 00101010 101001010 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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