This is an analysis of the poem The Fascination Of What's Difficult that begins with:

THE fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbaccXdda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101001100 1101101111 01001110010 1011110111 1110011101 1101010101 1010011111 11011101111 1100110101 10110100111 1001010001 1101011101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 550
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of is repeated.

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