This is an analysis of the poem XXXII. 'Thou only wert my hope, and thou art gone' that begins with:
Thou only wert my hope, and thou art gone.
Thou, the one star in monotones of sky,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabccX deeXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111111 10110100001 1101010011 1001110111 1111111101 1101111101 0101011101 0101011100 1001010101 1111010101 0111010101 1111000101 1101011111 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; thou, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.
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