This is an analysis of the poem Despair that begins with:
Thy wings swoop darkening round my soul, Despair!
And on my brain thy shadow seems to brood ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba cdcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110011101 1111111101 11110100101 01010011111 1101011111 1101010110 0111000101 0111110001 1111100111 10011101001 11010100101 0101010101 1111010001 11111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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