This is an analysis of the poem To A Despondent Nationalist that begins with:
Wherefore wail you for the harp? Is it broken?
Have the bold hands that once struck it weaker grown?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc deXedada fdfdgaga eaea hehe heheXiai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010010 10111110101 111111010 101111011 11011011110 10101010111 11010101010 1110101101 11111111010 00101011111 10110101010 11111011101 11110101111 101010101110 11111101011 011000100010 1110010101 11101010101 11111010011 1101110101 101111100010 10111110101 0010011010 1010101101 1010111010 0111111101 11100101010 11101010101 11001101110 10100010101 01010100110 10010110001 1111101110 011011101 110000100110 1101111001 11010101000 10101110111 1111111010 10101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, we, in are repeated.
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