This is an analysis of the poem Where Most My Thoughts that begins with:
Where most my thoughts, there least mine eye is striking;
Where least I come, there most my heart abideth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111010 11111111100 11111101110 01111111010 11011111100 01011111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, where, i, most are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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