This is an analysis of the poem O Hymen! O Hymenee! that begins with:
O HYMEN! O hymenee!
Why do you tantalize me thus?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 11110111 11111011010 1111010111111 00010101001011011 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; o, why, you are repeated.
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