This is an analysis of the poem Song—raging Fortune: A Fragment that begins with:
O RAGING Fortune's withering blast
Has laid my leaf full low, O!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaB XbXb CBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 1111111 110101001 1111111 11111111 1101011 01110111 1111011 11010101 1111011 11010101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase o connects the lines.
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