This is an analysis of the poem The Week of Diana that begins with:
The dark lantern of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land.
We stumble into our misery on leaden feet....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X X b c X c d d c d c b a X X X d X b X c bXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100110110110101 1100011001101 11101010010011110 1000110101110 01111101011001 1010100101 010101 11100100010 1110000100101010100 10010010011001 110101101011100100 10011 11010101110100 1011100101 110101100 101101 01110110101 11110100 11011 011110101111111 11011101000 110111 0100101011 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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