This is an analysis of the poem Despair that begins with:
And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calm
In cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdd ededfgfgg aeaehihii jdjdckckk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110011 01010010101 1111011011 1101011111 1111111111 1101001111 1011111101 10001010001 100100010100101 1111010101 10010100101 1101110101 1101010101 0101010100 11010010111 010000100100 0111111101 0100101101101 0111010001 1011000101 1011010101 1101010101 101101011 1011110101 0101111101 0101010101 010111110011 11001111101 01001111101 1111111111 11010101101 110010111001 0101010101 1101011111 1101110101 10010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; now, i are repeated.
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