This is an analysis of the poem Dejection that begins with:
When sickness clouds the languid eye,
And seeds of sharp diseases fly... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabccdeed ffdaadggdhhdeedeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 110101 11110111 110101001 010101 111100101 010111001 1100101 11010111 11010101 011001 11010111 11011101 110101 010010101 11011101 111101 10010111 11011101 111111 11110001 11110101 0101001 11010101 010010101 010101 10110101 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Dejection;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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