This is an analysis of the poem The Leaden-Eyed that begins with:
Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1111110111 0001110111 0111111101 1111111100 1111111101 1111111101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; they, that, not, but are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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