This is an analysis of the poem Desire that begins with:
Thou, who dost dwell alone;
Thou, who dost know thine own;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaBB ccddeebB fffXggXchhaaiibB affajjjjB kjkjllmmll llXnngggiXajBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,16,9,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 111111 101111 0010001 111 001010 01010 01110 01110 01101 011101 10111101 111 1011010 11110 1011010 011110 10111 1101 100110 100101 111111 110001 1001010 001010 00111 001100 10011001 111 000110 001010 11110 0110110 0110110 0111110 0111010 111010 111 01110100 111111 1101010 111101 110111 111101 111111 110101 1011011101 1111 110111 111111 1001000 111111 11101 11101 110101 1101 11110 11100 10110 11010 0010001 111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, from, to, that, where, all, be, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, from, where, o, let, all are repeated.
The author used the same word from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word save at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Desire;
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