This is an analysis of the poem The Lover Speaks To The Hearers Of His Songs In Coming Days that begins with:
O WOMEN, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence,
When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101110111 111111010101 1100111101001 1100101011101 111111111101 100101111011 1001010111101 0101001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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