This is an analysis of the poem O How May I Ever Express That Secret Word? that begins with:
O How may I ever express that secret word?
O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110011101 111111011011011 0111100110101001 0111100110011 110101010100100001 0101011011010 1010101110 10100111000 1111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 450
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, i, he, say are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, if, he are repeated.
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