This is an analysis of the poem The Heart's Own Day that begins with:
This is the heart's own day:
With dreaming eyes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa ababa cdcdc efefe egege Xhaha bibib dXdXgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000111 0101 110101 0101 001111 011111 0111 111101 1101 010111 100101 1101 101001 1011 010101 110101 1101 0100111 1101 011101 100101 1101 111101 1111 010101 111100 1101 000100 0111 110101 111101 1111 110101 1001 001101 110001 0100 011101 0100 0111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gone, one, and, of are repeated.
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