This is an analysis of the poem The Mayfair Love-Song that begins with:
Winter and summer, night and morn,
I languish at this table dark;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababab acacacAc dedeaeAe fbfbacAc ghghhcXc icicfcfc jijijXjc kakajcjc lclcfXfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 11010101 11010101 01001101 11011101 11010111 11010001 11010101 111101001 11111111 11011111 11111111 11110101 11011101 10011101 11110111 11011101 11111101 110010101 11111101 11110111 11010111 10011101 11110111 11110111 11010111 11110101 11000101 11011001 11001111 10011101 11110111 11011111 10111011 11011101 01010101 11111101 111100011 11111111 11110001 11111101 11111111 01011101 11010101 11110001 01111101 01011101 11110111 11001111 11010101 11011111 11111101 11011111 111100100 11110111 110010111 11011111 01111111 11111101 11011101 110011011 01011111 11110101 11110101 11010111 11010111 11011101 11011111 110010101 11111101 11011111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, my, she's, home, again, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, what, and, o are repeated.
The author used the same words my, she's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word glow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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