This is an analysis of the poem Bereavement that begins with:
A Countess (so they tell the tale)
Who dwelt of old in Arno's vale,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddeXffggaaddeX dddXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11010101 110100101 1101101 11000101 1001101 11011101 11110101 110010101 11010001 11111111 01010111 01010001 01011101 01010011 01110100 01011101 011100001 11111111 11010111 01010101 11110101 11111101 01011101 01110001 11011011 11010101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, his, the are repeated.
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- summary of Bereavement;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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