This is an analysis of the poem When Woes Once Had Up And Go that begins with:
Isn't the feeling fantastic,
When a past that has been lived......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abccdc abbbdd DEDb DEDe AeAeXDEae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 00010010 1011101 101010101 1100110110100 00101001101 100100111011011 001100101010 110100010 1011001010101 0001000101010001 01010110111001 11010100011001101 00101010111 10010101011 100101010111 1111001 00101010111 10010101011 100101010111 11101101 00010010 1111111 00010010 11111101 00101010111 10010101011 1010010 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same words isn't, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word show at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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