This is an analysis of the poem Ix. O Poverty! Though From Thy Haggard Eye... that begins with:
O POVERTY! though from thy haggard eye,
Thy cheerless mein, of every charm bereft, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacXXcdedede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1100101101 11010100101 1111110111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1100010100 1101010101 11000101001 1110111110 11010010101 1101000111 1100010101 01110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, and are repeated.
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