This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Regret that begins with:
I opened my shutter at sunrise,
And looked at the hill hard by,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc dbeb eaaX ecdc efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111 1110111 1110011011 1101101 110011010 11101011 1111110011 1101101 101010011 11011011 011101010 1010101 01000100110 11011101 1110111111 0011101 110111010 0011101 110110010 101011001 111011110 10101101 1011011110 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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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