This is an analysis of the poem Song.—oh, Had I Ne'Er Beheld Thee that begins with:
Oh! had I ne'er beheld thee
How calm my life had flown!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cXdX cada bece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 111111 1111110 111101 1101011 010111 1101010 010100 1100010 011011 1101110 010101 0101010 110101 1101110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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More information about poems by Louisa Stuart Costello
- Analysis of Song.—in Early Days
- Analysis of Lines.—why Look'D I On That Fatal Line
- Analysis of Memory
