This is an analysis of the poem Joseph that begins with:
NEVER in all her sweet and holy youth
Seemed she so beautiful! The tired lines... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdefegggbcgXbe fgXbbhX geij jihgbdjahX XXXfbjjXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,7,4,10,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011101 1111000101 1011011101 1101110001 1011010101 1101110111 1101110011 1101010011 0011110101 1111110111 0100011101 1100010100 01010010011 1001010101 101111111 1101010111 110101 1111 1111110101 1111010101 1101010001 1101110101 1100010001 111111 0101 1111100111 1001010111 1111 010101 1111010101 10011110111 0101011111 0101011111 1101111101 0101001101 1111010101 1101010111 1100 101001 11011111001 0101110111 11010100010 1111011111 1111110111 0101111111 1111110100 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).
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