This is an analysis of the poem Despairing Cries that begins with:
DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night,
The sad voice of Death--the call of my nearest lover, putting forth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcb XXXccaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011100011111 0110101011010101 01010 01111001111 111111101111010 1101110111011 101101011011001 11010 101100111011111 11010100110101001 110 011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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