This is an analysis of the poem Ode Written On The First Of January that begins with:
Come melancholy Moralizer--come!
Gather with me the dark and wintry wreath;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bcbd effX eghf ihcj Xihk hlgj lXeb heil aech eifl bidi afihXecki
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010001 1001011101 011001 01001 11000001001 1101000101 1101001 0101010 11101010111 01001010001 010101 011100 1011001001 1001110100 101001 1001101 1101011111 1111111101 110100 100100 0111010111 01001010111 010111 111100 1111110101 1111010101 011100 011100 1101001101 11110100101 100111 1101001 1111010101 01110101101 011101 1001001 1111110101 11110011001 010101 1100001 1101010111 11001010111 010101 010111 1111110101 0111011100 1111010 010101 1101010101 0101010101 010101 111101 1111100101 0101001111 010100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, thou, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, if, her, the are repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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