This is an analysis of the poem Wasted Love that begins with:
What shall be done for sorrow
With love whose race is run?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXB babXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 011101 1101011 1101 010111 0111010 111111 0101110 111101 1111010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Wasted Love;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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