This is an analysis of the poem Absence that begins with:
WHEN from the craggy mountain's pathless steep,
Whose flinty brow hangs o'er the raging sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd bebeffdd gdgdbXdd chchffdd ijijhhdd dedekkdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 11011100101 1101100101 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 01010000010011 11110100111 11010100101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 11101010101 1101010101 1101001111 11001010111 1011000101 10110001101 1111110101 10010010101 1101111111 1111011100 0111010111 1101010011 1001011101 1111010011 1101011101 0101010101 0101010111 1101010111 1101010101 1101010111 1111011101 1101010111 0111110111 0101010101 1111010111 11011000101 1011010101 1001001101 11011101001 1111010101 1011011101 1101010111 1101110101 1111011101 1101010101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Absence;
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