This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxvii that begins with:

At such a time indeed of youth's first morn,
There is a heaving of the soul in pain,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdbdbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010111 1001000101 0101110111 110110001 0101101101 0101011111 0011100100 1101011011 1101001100 1001110100 1111010100 0101110101 1001011111 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, her, and are repeated.

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