This is an analysis of the poem A Lament that begins with:
Gone from us—dead to us—he whom we worshipped so!
Low lies the altar we raised to his name;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd bebefdfd agagchXh didi jgjgXdhdhahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101111101 1101011001 100111101101 1001111001 111101100100 1111011001 1001000101000 1111111001 100100101101 1111011011 111111111111 1111001001 111100110100 1111001101 110110101111 1101001011 101101111101 1001101001 1110100101101 1101011001 111111100100 1001111011 101101100101 1110011101 11010101000101 1111111001 100101110101 101100101 111111101100 1111011001 111101101100 111100101 111111101111 111101011 110101110101 10011111011 111111101101 10011010101011 1101101011101 1111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, him, for, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words madly, he are repeated.
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- summary of A Lament;
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