This is an analysis of the poem Delia, An Elegy that begins with:
YES, DELIA loves! My fondest vows are blest;
Farewel the memory of her past disdain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cd cd aeae afaf eaea gbgb gcgc egeg haha idid jeje klkl acac eaea meme adad dXdi bhbhXmgmg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 100010000101 1101011111 1100010001 10011010101 1011010101 1011000101 11010110001 0101111001 11001010101 11011011101 11001011101 1011111101 1111010101 1011010101 1101000111 0101110101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010001 1101000101 1111010101 1101110101 1101011101 110111000101 11001000101 01010010001 1101110111 1101100101 11001010101 1001111111 11010100101 1011011011 1001011001 1011110101 1011010101 11010111010 0101011101 01010101010 1100010101 1011010101 010111101 0101011101 1101000101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010101 01010110001 1111010101 1101010101 1111010011 1011000101 1011110101 1101010111 1101111101 1101011101 1111110101 0101110001 1111010101 1111011101 1101001101 0111010101 1111011101 1101010101 11010110101 0111010101 11010010101 0101010101 0101011111 11010011101 1011110101 1101011101 0101010111 1101111101 1101110001 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, many, what, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, she, the, what are repeated.
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