This is an analysis of the poem Sometimes I Watch You, Mark Your Brooding Eyes that begins with:
Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes,
Your grave brow over-weighted with deep thought, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111101 1111010011 1111010101 1101001111 1110011001 1110111101 01111111001 0111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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