This is an analysis of the poem The Hour When We Shall Meet Again that begins with:
Dim hour! that sleep'st on pillowing clouds afar,
O rise and yoke the turtles to thy car!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddeecccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110111100101 1111010011 110010111001 1110010011 1101010110 0101110101 1011100101 1011110101 1101010101 1011000101 11010101010 110010001010 1011010111 11010010001 111110101001 01001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; with, of, and are repeated.
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