This is an analysis of the poem When Helen Lived that begins with:
WE have cried in our despair
That men desert,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110 1110001 1101001 101111 010010 1111101 11010 11010001 1101101 00111001 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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