This is an analysis of the poem Song.—if Those Dark Eyes that begins with:
If those dark eyes have gazed on me,
Unconscious of their power— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcd efefgaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 1100110 01010100 11010110 01110101 111101 110100101 100111 11011111 111111 01010111 110101 11011111 010101 011100101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my is repeated.
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More information about poems by Louisa Stuart Costello
- Analysis of Song.—oh, Had I Ne'Er Beheld Thee
- Analysis of Song.—in Early Days
- Analysis of Lines.—why Look'D I On That Fatal Line
