This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Of Lisa that begins with:
There is no woman living who draws breath
So sad as I, though all things sadden her. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabdcecedc cacdacbecedb bcdacabcecde ebcdacebcdac cedeabcaccbd dcdeabcacebc cdcecaXebdca accdbeaccdeb babacececdcd dbcceacbeadc cdeacbcebadc ccdccdbeabeaXecadab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111 1111111100 1011011101 1010111100111 01111110110 11010110101 1001111111 1111110101 1111111111 1111111001 1111110111 1111110111 0111001101 1101110111 1111110101 1111111111 1111011011 1101011111 1111110110 10110111101 110110011001 1111011101 11111101001 1111010110 1111010110 1101111111 1111011001 110001011101 1111011001 1011111111 0111111110 10101011101 111111110111 11111111101 1011111101 1011011101 1101101101 1111101110 11111101111 0101111001 10001010101 1111111101 1111001101 001110100110 11111011001 10010111001 0110111011 1011110101 1101011111 1110110111 1101110101 11110110111 1101001111 1111010100 11010101101 1111110101 11110010101 10010010111 1111110110 1101110101 1011110101 11001111101 1011010101 1100110111 11111111101 101011111010 11010110001 11001111111 1111011101 1011101111 1111111110 1101010111 11111101011 0111010111 1101010101 11010101111 0101111101 110110111111 1001111101 11011111111 01010010110 1101011101 11010110101 010011101001 1011111101 11101011101 1011111101 1111110101 1111101110 1111010111 11011011111 1111101111 1111110111 1001101111 11111001101 1100111000 11110110100 1111111101 1101100110 1011010101 0111011011 1111010101 1111110101 1101111101 1111100101 110001100111 1101110101 0111110101 1110110001 1111011100 11110110101 1001110011 1001100101 1111010111 01011110101 0101110110 1101111101 10111011011 1111010101 1111110101 1111111111 01011000101 01100101001 0110011101 0101010001 1111011110 10111011101 0111110111 1101010110 101100101101 00110010111 1111110101 110101011001 0111111111 11010110001 1101010011 1111110111 11110110111 1111110110 1111001101 1101111111 1111111100 11101111101 11110110111 11111111101 0111011111 0111011011 1011100101 1100111111 1101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; all, and, what, love, my, her, without, in, i, of, that, to, sun's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, o, from, so are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, sunflower, bed, thee, done, way, death, her, sun, day are repeated).
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- summary of The Complaint Of Lisa;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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