This is an analysis of the poem Good Hours that begins with:
I had for my winter evening walk-
No one at all with whom to talk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa ffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 11110101 1110100001 10110101 111110101 110100001 110111010 010111010 111100101 1111011001 1110101101 111101111 10011101 010100101 11010111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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