This is an analysis of the poem The Unappeasable Host that begins with:
THE Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101010011 111101011111 110101101101 0101001101101 111101110011 110101101111 1001111001001 100111000101 1001110101011 01011111001001 1101110010001 0100110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word desolate is repeated.
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