This is an analysis of the poem From A Bachelor’s Private Journal that begins with:
SWEET Mary, I have never breathed
The love it were in vain to name;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbc cdcd eded fbfb ghgh hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 01000101 111101010 11110101 11010101 010111010 11010111 11000101 10110101 01000111 01010101 01011101 110101011 01110101 010010111 1101100101 11010101 11010100 11010101 11110101 11101111 11110001 11010111 00100101 010110101 01110101 011101101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; may is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word go at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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