This is an analysis of the poem My Spectre Around Me Night And Day that begins with:
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My spectre around me night and day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aabb X ccdd X eebb X bbff a ggff a aahh X ddii X eejX X bbcc a hhjj X bbjj k iieX a lldd a jJam X kkhh X jJam X madX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110011111 1011111 11010101 10100111 1 01001101 1110111 1010101 11010101 1 11111001 1000111 1010111 1110101 1 1110111 1010111 1010011 1110101 1 10011111 110011 11011101 10111001 1 10111111 1011111 110110111 01110101 1 11011011 1011101 10010101 1010111 1 1110111 11100101 1110111 1111011100 0 10111111 1111011 10111111 11111101 1 1010101 1110101 1110111 1110111 1 1010101 1110011 1010111 1111011 1 10101111 1110101 1011101 1110110 1 1110001 1110001 1011101 1011101 1 1110111 11100101 1110100 01000100 1 1011101 01011101 1010101 000100011 1 11010111 11100101 1110111 010100100 1 10110100 10111011 11111001 100110010
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, with, and, when, thou, wilt, sins are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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