This is an analysis of the poem On A Shadow In A Glass that begins with:
By something form'd, I nothing am,
Yet everything that you can name;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddeebXddbbeeddffgghh iiggccggXjhhjjkkbbeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11011111 01111100 11011101 01111111 01011101 10101111 11011111 11011111 11110111 11111111 11001111 1110100 10111101 11011001 11000101 11110001 11111101 10110101 010100111 10010101 01011111 010011111 11111101 11111101 111111011 1111111 11111111 11111111 010101010 011101110 01100101 01110111 11011111 110011101 11011101 110011001 01011101 110011001 01010101 01011101 11011101 11001111 11110101 11100101 110101110 111110010 11100101 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 859
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, no, ne'er, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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