This is an analysis of the poem She Sat Alone Beside Her Hearth that begins with:
SHE sat alone beside her hearth—
For many nights alone;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe gbhX giXi jaka aflf jeme kcXc mmnm gogX pigi gfef gnan Xdjd fggg fege miai mdmd mphp Xili mdmd biXi ipip fngn eeoe fiiiXfbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 010101 11111111 010101 110100101 101101 11111000 1111011 01100111 111111 111110101 0100101 01111100 110101 10111101 010101 00110101 111101 11010101 010101 000100100 1100111 11011101 111111 01010100 111101 11011100 110011 01000101 111101 111101001 1101001 11010101 010111 11010111 11011 10111111 110101 110010111 011101 10111110 110011 11000101 100101 11110100 110111 01011101 0100111 01110111 110111 11110100 011111 11011101 010011 11011101 110101 11110111 010001 11011101 111111 01111111 010111 01110101 111101 11011101 111111 11110111 011001 10011101 110101 01110100 110111 11001100 0100101 10110111 110111 11100101 110101 01011111 101111 11111101 110001 11011111 100001 11010101 110101 11110101 110101 11111101 110001 01011101 010101 110101001 110101 01110101 010101 01011101 110111 01110101 10001001 01010111 111101 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, grew, her, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.
The author used the same words yet, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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