This is an analysis of the poem XIII. 'Poor faltering lines, my weary soul's relief' that begins with:
Poor faltering lines, my weary soul's relief,
The balm of passion, opiate of pain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabaab XcXcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001110101 0101010001 010011101001 11011101001 1111111101 1011011111 1001101101 0101000101 11011011100 1101010101 1111010011 1111001101 1101001101 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
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