This is an analysis of the poem My Spirit Longs For Thee that begins with:
My spirit longs for thee
Within my troubled breast... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB BabA AcaC Cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 011101 110100 010101 010101 010110 111111 010101 010101 011101 011111 110001 110001 10111 111101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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