This is an analysis of the poem The Wanderer’s Return that begins with:
An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing,
And weeds upon an aged weeper cling... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcceeddffggffcc gggghhdd ccddcciihhjjddee cckkbbggiiggccffllXciiff ggccdXddeeiiccggkkmmiibbkXffggllgg ddiiddddccffddhhcckXiideeeccddggllnn ccaaiicciiiXccddggiiiiggccddfflliXdecced cciicchXgX ggbbllggbbggh hggedccggbbookX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,8,16,24,34,36,40,10,13,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110001001 110111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 10001110101 10011010111 1101011001 0111111111 1101000101 1111010111 0111011111 0011110101 01000101101 0111110101 1111110001 1101100101 1101011101 0101001111 1111111101 1111010101 11110100111 1111011101 11001100111 11111100111 0101101101 1111010011 1111111111 010011001101 1101111101 0100010101 1101001101 00110001010 00111111010 0101010011 0101110101 1101011111 1100010101 1011010111 1011111101 1011001101 1101011111 1111010100 1101001101 11010011111 01011111111 1111011101 1101110101 1011000101 11001010111 1101110101 0101011101 1011001111 0111111111 1101111101 1111010101 1101100101 1101010111 0111011101 0101010001 10011101101 1101110011 11111100100 1101110111 1100010101 1001111111 1111111111 1111011011 0101011101 0011010011 1001011011 0101010101 0101011101 01110101000 0101010111 1111011101 1101010101 1101010110 0011110111 1111010101 1011010001 0111010101 0111001111 1101010111 0101001101 1101010001 1111110111 1011010111 1001110001 1111001101 1011101111 1111110001 0111010011 0101010100 11010110111 0101001111 0101001111 1101111101 01010111101 1101010111 0100110101 1111111101 11010111010 110101010110 1111011111 1011110001 1101010111 1110111101 1101101000 0100011101 11110101110 11010101110 0101011111 1111001011 1110000101 1001111101 0100010011 1011111101 1111010011 0100111010 1101010111 1111110100 10001110101 1111010101 0101110011 1101000100 1011110101 11010011001 1101010101 1111010011 1111011101 1101111001 1101011100 10011011101 0100111111 1011011111 1111101101 1100010111 1101111101 1001011101 1111010111 1000110111 1011111101 1101110111 0011110101 1111101101 1011111001 1101011011 111000100101 1100111111 1101011111 10001010101 1111011101 1100111101 0101110101 10101010111 1011110111 1001111101 1111010001 1101110101 1001001111 1101010111 1101011111 1011010101 1111110101 1111001101 1111010101 1101010111 1100110111 1011010110 1111011100 11111100010 1111110011 11101010100 1101110111 1111110001 0111010101 1011110011 1111000111 0111110101 1111111111 10110010001 1111111111 0111001101 1111010011 0101010011 1111111101 1011111100 1111010101 1101111111 1110111101 1101010101 1101010111 0101011011 01010011111 1101010101 0011010101 0111010101 1001110111 11110101111 1100010111 1101111101 11111101110 11010111010 1001011101 01101010111 1111110101 11110100100 1111011101 1100010111 1100010101 0111111111 1110010101 10111000111 1101010111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 948
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 218
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, my, of, our, her, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.
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