This is an analysis of the poem Rejected that begins with:

Alas ! I have lost my God,
My beautiful God Apollo.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXeX fBfX eeee egeg gege eheh hihi jaja BdbX khkhXecec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111111 11001010 0100111 1101010 1101111 111110010 11111101 111111110 11101001 111111010 111101001 01101110 111101 1110010010 10101111 10100100101 11101001 10111001 1111101 111011 1111110 0101010 1011110 00101010 0101010 110101 0101010 011111 1111111 0010111 10101111 1011110 110101 111101 10101001 11111001 11101001 111101 10101101 11101001 1110010010 101101010 111111010 10110110 11111011 11101101 111001101 00101111 11111001 00111100 1101101 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, apollo, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines desire is repeated).

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