This is an analysis of the poem The Raven Days that begins with:
Our hearths are gone out and our hearts are broken,
And but the ghosts of homes to us remain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa BXbX cdcdXBaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111110 1101010101 11011101110 0101010101 11011101010 10101101001 11100110010 1101111101 11010101010 1111101101 10011101010 1101110001 11011101010 0101011101 01001100010 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of, some, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some, ye, will are repeated.
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