This is an analysis of the poem To Hester On The Stair that begins with:
Hester, creature of my love,
What is this? You love not me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccb dcdeffe fgfXbbg hghgiig jgjgggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1001111 1011101 1011000 0010011 1010101 1110101 10101010 1111111 11111010 1010101 0110111 1011101 0110111 10101010 1110101 11101110 11101000 0111101 1111011 1111101 10101110 1010101 10110010 1011101 1011111 0110011 1111101 00111110 1111101 11111110 0110101 1010011 1011101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, one, my, it are repeated.
The author used the same word hester at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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