This is an analysis of the poem The Ravings Which My Enemy Uttered I Heard Within My Heart that begins with:
The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart;
the secret thoughts he harbored against me I also perceived. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdabaeXXcefefbXddghaXhghedb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110010110111 010111001111001 011111111010111 111011110111 11110100001001010011 011111100101010010 10111111100110 110011010001111 110111001001010111 10100001010010 010111110100110 1111110010011 0110111111101 010101110011 110010101101011 1011100010001 000111101011101 1100111101101110 110 01110101010111111 1101010101 111110000110101 101101110101 111100111101100 101011101111011 010 1111101101110101 111101111110111 10101111010110110 01111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1677
- Average number of words per stanza: 325
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and, heart, nor, neither are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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