This is an analysis of the poem From The Desert that begins with:

THOU hast visited me with Thy storms,
And the vials of Thy sore displeasure... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeedfdf edgdahhicci cicicjjgccg dbcbejjckck
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111001011 1010011010 11111110101 11011110 11111101 11100101 11101111 11111001 111001001011 1110101111 11101111 1011111 00101111 1111011101 0010111 110111 10101111 111111001 11100101 10110111111 1111011 110110101 1011111 00100101 1110110101 101111 10111011 01101011 110110111 11111100101 00110110100 1100100110 00100111 11011111 001001010 1111111011 11001010 1111110 11100101 1111101111 111101011 101111001 1111001101 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; my, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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