This is an analysis of the poem She Touches A Sad String Of Soft Recall that begins with:
Return, return! all night my lamp is burning,
All night, like it, my wide eyes watch and burn;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababB XbXbB cbcbbB bbbbbbB bbbbbbbbbbbB XbbddbdbbbbbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,7,12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011111010 1110111111 10111111010 1101010101 0101 101100010010 1011011101 10110101010 01010010101 0101 10101000111 1111101111 11110101001 1010010111 10010001 0101 1001010111 0110010111 1101010111 10010010101 1101110111 0101011101 0101 0101111101 1101111101 011011111 10010011101 1101010100 1101110101 11011101 1101011001 1101010111 1111011101 1101011101 0101 01011101110 1101011101 1111010101 0101110101 01111101 1101010101 0101011001 01001010101 100100101101 11010011101 01010011101 0101001011101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; return, like, and, it, its, lingering, thy, life are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, its are repeated.
The author used the same words like, return at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines return is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word return at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases return, burn, yearn connect the lines.
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