This is an analysis of the poem Song. Come Harriet! Sweet Is The Hour that begins with:
Come Harriet! sweet is the hour,
Soft Zephyrs breathe gently around,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefcece gcgc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110010010 11011001 0100011010 11011101 11011011 111101001 11101001 11101011 01001011 111101011 010001111 01101001 01111101 111011001 101111011 11101001 11001011 111111101 11111111 11111101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, all are repeated.
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