This is an analysis of the poem Softly, O! Dropp Mine Eyes that begins with:
Softly, O! dropp mine eyes, lest you be dry,
And make my heart with grief to melt and die.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111101 1111010111 111101 111101 11011 0111111111 111111011101 11110101 1111011100 110111110 11111111010 11011111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; o is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
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