This is an analysis of the poem A Curse Against Elegies that begins with:
Oh, love, why do we argue like this?
I am tired of all your pious talk....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbaa XccXdXXXaXX aXabadc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010 1110011101 1011100101 101010 11001 11110011 1110101 10111101 0110101 010111010 1100110111 011110011 101110 10101 011101101 111100101 101011 11001010010 101001001 101110011 111101 111111 00011 111111101 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, go are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
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