This is an analysis of the poem Unfortunate that begins with:
Heart, you are restless as a paper scrap
That's tossed down dusty pavements by the wind;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacXcX deefdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010101 1111010101 1010111011 0101110001 1001111111 1101010111 0101110001 10011001010 1011110111 1111110010011 11111111111 1101011101 01011111001 1011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; her, me are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of Unfortunate;
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