This is an analysis of the poem A Song On A Sigh that begins with:
O tell mee, tell, thou god of wynde,
In all thy cavernes canst thou finde... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaaaBB XXaaccbB XXddaaBB eeXXffBB XXggcXBB aXccXgBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 011100111 01010111 10011111 11010011 11110101 11111111 11011011 01011110 01011110 01011111 11110011 01011111 11111101 11111111 11011011 1101011 11000111 1100111 011100101 010010101 111100011 11111111 11011011 11011101 01111011 110101010 1100010110 11100101 10011111 11111111 11011011 11011110 111110101 11000101 10010101 11110101 0101010 11111111 11011011 11011101 10010110 11010101 11011111 01111101 11011101 11111111 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ease at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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