This is an analysis of the poem Heart's-Ease that begins with:
As opiates to the sick on wakeful nights,
As light to flowers, as flowers in poor men's rooms, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabba cddcdc
- 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: 110000111001 110101100111 1001010101 01010000101 11001010101 11010001001 01001000101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010111 1111010101 0101010101 01010001111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; as, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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