This is an analysis of the poem To My Wife that begins with:
Oft in the night, from this lone room
I long to fly o’er land and sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fgfg ghgh ijij bdbd kiki bibiXgege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010011 11011111 01010101 111101 11011101 11111111 11111111 110101 11111101 01110101 11010101 011111 11111111 11011101 10110101 110111 11010000 11110001 11111101 010111 11010111 11010101 11010101 011111 11111101 11110101 01111111 111001 100111111 11010111 11010111 110101 10111111 10111101 110011101 111101 110011100 11011111 11011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, we, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, that are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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