This is an analysis of the poem A Word Of Good Cheer that begins with:
WHY thus mourn o'er star-hopes faded?
They are only from thy ken,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb adadefef ghghcici jhjhkaka elelcmcm hahambmb eneXhbhb cnXnckck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110 1110011 10101010 1010101 111110100 1110011 1110010100 0110001 11101010 1010101 10101010 1011101 11011110 11111001 11001010 1011111 1010010 1001101 10110010 1111101 11101010 1011111 11101010 1110101 11101110 1010101 1111110 1001111 10100010 1010111 11101110 0010101 01100010 1111111 100111010 1111101 10011110 1110101 11101110 1101111 10100110 1011111 10101010 1010101 10111010 1010111 11000110 0110101 10101010 1001101 1001001110 1010111 101001010 1111101 11101010 1111001 11101110 10101001 10001100 1110111 1011110 0011001 1101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; as, and, from, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words up, but are repeated.
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