This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xlii that begins with:
And so we went our way,--yes, hand in hand,
Like two lost children in some magic wood... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaXaXbcbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111101 1111001101 10110000101 01001111101 111101001001 0111001100 1101011111 0011111011 1101111101 0101011101 0101010111 0111111101 1100111111 0111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
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