This is an analysis of the poem Alone that begins with:
I’ve listened: and all the sounds I heard
Were music,—wind, and stream, and bird. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111 01011111 01110101 110110101 11010111 111100111 11101101 111111111 11101101 10001011 10110111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, ve, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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