This is an analysis of the poem Song From An Evening's Love that begins with:
After the pangs of a desperate lover,
When day and night I have sighed all in vain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb adad ebeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010010 1111111101 11010000010 0011011011 10100111010 1111001001 11010010010 1101001001 10010110110 1011101101 110100111110 11010011011 10011011010 1011011011 11011011010 1101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ah is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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