This is an analysis of the poem The Girl Of Otaheite that begins with:
Forget? Can I forget the scented breath
Of breezes, sighing of thee, in mine ear;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddE fgfghhbbE eieijjcce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111010101 0101001011 0110000101 0101011101 1101001101 1111010101 111111 1001101 1101 1111001101 1001101101 110100101101 1101011111 1011011101 1011011101 110111 101101 1101 0111111101 1101111101 1001110111 1011001111 1011010111 1111111101 111101 010101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, here, forget are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, here are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines forget is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word forget 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 word/phrase forget connects the lines.
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