This is an analysis of the poem Hours Continuing Long that begins with:
HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted,
Hours of the dusk, when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXbbXccdeeXbXeaXdbXfXfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001111010 100011101001011000 110111011011 1010100111111010 010111010111010 110100101 100100101011101011 0111111001011 10111010111111011 011110001 1011001011011001011 111 10010111001011010110 0110 01101101101001010 101 011111111110010010 101010111110011 01 1111001010110100 101101 111010101001000110 11011101110 111010100101101110 10010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1425
- Average number of words per stanza: 226
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hours, i, like, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hours is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines am is repeated).
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