This is an analysis of the poem The Drowned Lover that begins with:

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Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcXXXX XdadXeeea XfgfgXeeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111011011010 11101001001 1010011010010 111111101001 11011101001 11100100011010 111111101001 1111011010110 1 110010010010 11001101001 10100110011010 11101011111 1111110010010 110010110010 1010110010010 001101111001 1 111001111001 101101101001 11111011001 11111101011 111010110110 10010110010010 1111010110010 010001001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • 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; she, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.

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