This is an analysis of the poem Awake, My Heart that begins with:
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aXa bbaA bbaa bbaA bbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110010101 01010010111 01001100101 010001011101 111101001111 01010110111 01011011111 01110010101 10110000010 110011100101 1111010101 01001110101 01010100111 100010100111 110010100101 01110010101 11111101111 1101110111101 110110110101 10111001011000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; awake, be, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word awake is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word awake 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 awake connects the lines.
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