This is an analysis of the poem A Lamentation that begins with:
I.
WHO hath known the ways of time... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbcdXefeggfe hcijhcijhcij jdjddaadkdkddjdjjhjh XhahhaddddefefaeaelXlmeeeenanagagagXggdfXf ecbecb jcejce Xemdemdemd cjocjocXo jecjXcjec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,12,20,42,6,6,10,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110101 1100101 10111011 11101111 101111 0111001 1111001 11001001 1111001 10111011 01101110 11011010 1101111 111101011 11101101 0101001 1100100 00101001 1101011 0111011 0101011 1111011 1111001 1100111 10101111 101101101 101001001 11001111 1101001 1101001 1101001 11011001 10101110001 1001001 111001001 1110101 1101101 1110101 1101101 01100111 1110101 10101101 1111011 111011 11110101 1111001 1 1110101101 11001001 01011101 10011101 1111101111 10111111 101111 111101110 11111 1110010011 001001 01001011 10111 11101001 101001 1111001 101011 1110111 11110 11101101 11101 01001001 101001 11100101 00101 101010110 101001 111101110 001001 11110010 11111 010011010 001001 1011111010 1011100 1100010110 1100110 1111111 001101 1000100110 001001 110010111 11110101 100101111 1101101011 111111001 110110101 110100101 1111111011 110111011 101111101 110111111 1111001011 1 110111 011101 011111 10001010 111101 0110101 1101110 111111 101111 111111 0110011 110101 1100111 111101 111101 0100111 1100110 111111 111101 111111 110011 110101 100100 111111 101101 101111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 129
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; as, and, for, hath, he, of, or, year are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, and, ye, as, there, i, one, but, opens are repeated.
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- summary of A Lamentation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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