This is an analysis of the poem In Absence. that begins with:
I.
The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdedeXdfdaa X dXdghahiajijbb X kckcgjgjfifacc X ckcXagaglmlmkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 01111101101 11111010101 1111010111 0111111111 11110100011 1111000101 1111010101 0101010101 1111011110 1011110101 1111010101 0111010101 1111011111 1101110010 1 1101010001 11001110100 1101011101 1111010001 1111111011 1100111111 0101010101 1101010100 1111011111 1100000101 1001000100 1111010101 1101010001 1111110111 1 1101010111 1100010011 1111011101 1111010101 1111111101 01001111101 1100011011 1001010101 1111111101 1111011100 010010101001 10110110111 1111010111 1111111111 1 1111110101 11010100101 1100111101 0101001101 1101111111 11011011001 0111110011 01010011101 01001010101 1110010101 1111001101 1111000101 1001001101 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, with, of, his are repeated.
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