This is an analysis of the poem When I Heard At The Close Of The Day that begins with:
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd
with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdXeXbafgdbceadfXXXbagd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010011111001 0100010010110101 11110 1111100111100101 11110 101111110010011 0110010011010 11101100111110100 101 111001100111001 100011011011 111111111101101 10111110 1111101011111110 1110100111 1011010110011101 11 111111111010110 01000101 110101000101110100 11000010111 101111110111001100 011 001000101101101 011 10111001111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1448
- Average number of words per stanza: 244
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- 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; when, i, and, me, in are repeated.
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