This is an analysis of the poem To James Clarence Mangan that begins with:
Poor splendid Poet of the burning eyes
And withered hair and godly pallid brow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcdcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101000101 1101110101 1111010111 1101110101 1111010001 0111011101 1111010101 11011100101 1111010111 0101001101 1011011011 11010101101 1011011101 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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