This is an analysis of the poem If The Heart Of A Man that begins with:
If the heart of a man is deprest with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaaabbXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100101001 01001101001 101001011010 100101111 101100101 101111111 10 010 010 010 0110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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