This is an analysis of the poem Oh! Think Not My Spirits Are Always As Light that begins with:
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light,
And as free from a pang as they seem to you now, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdede cfcfafXfghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111011111 111001111011 101101101001 001001001011 11001010010 11001001001 1011010010010 01101001101 11101101001 111011011001 101101011001 101101011001 01011101101 000101011001 111111111001 111011001011 11111010010 110111001101 10111100010100 01001011001 11101101001 001101001101 101101110011 101101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, as, of are repeated.
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