This is an analysis of the poem Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours that begins with:
YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also;
Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX bcbc XaXbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111011110 101111111110 100100101110100010 1 100100100101001010 01011100011 0101101010101010 01111001111 111111101111010 1101110111011 101101011011001 110101 10110011011111 11010100110101001 110 011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; ye, i, tell, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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