This is an analysis of the poem To Sorrow that begins with:
O Dark-Eyed goddess of the marble brow,
Whose look is silence and whose touch is night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefeff X bgbgahahgagaa X ggXXicicgcgcc XXciciefeffdfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,13,1,13,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000101 1101011101 1101010111 1101001111 1001010011 11111 1101011101 011101 1111011101 1001010101 1111001111 1011110101 110111 1 10101110101 1011110101 01011100111 1011010101 0101110101 100111 1111010101 010111 0111000111 111011101 0101010101 0100111101 110111 1 1111010101 1101010101 11110011111 01110101100 1101110001 010101 0111110101 110101 0101010101 0101011111 010010111011 11010001001 101101 1 10011101110 0101110111 11011101010 010100111001 1011011101 110111 1101010111 110011 1101110101 11010000101 11011001001 1101011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thou, to, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines high is repeated).
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