This is an analysis of the poem What Shall I Say To Thee, My Spirit, So Soon Dejected that begins with:
What shall I say to thee, my spirit, so soon dejected,
Unaccountably conquered, where thou seemed'st strong?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded adaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110111011010 101001011101 1110101110010 101101010101 011111010101 10111010101 0101101011101 11111011101 0101110100101 00110100100111 0111001110111 11001010010101 01000111011101 100111011011 111111110101 011111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou is repeated.
The author used the same word alone at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.
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