This is an analysis of the poem The Lament Of The Old Nurse that begins with:
NURSE
Our mistress bids me with all speed to call...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcdeaXfgeXXdeafXeadhbXddgegdXahgac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1101101101 1000010111 1111010101 0101010101 1011010101 11010101001 1101011110 11011111000 1001010101 1111110101 0111011101 1111001111 1101010101 1111110011 1101110110 1101111100 1111010111 1001010111 1101110111 1101010001 1111011111 0101011100 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010110 1111110101 1111010101 1111000101 1101110101 1101010101 1111111101 1101011101 1100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 761
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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