This is an analysis of the poem Titus Andronicus's Complaint that begins with:

The Lamentable and Tragical History of Titus Adronicus, &c.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xbcc XXdd eeXX fXaa gghh iidX XXdd XXXX bbee ffii jjff dddd ddbb XXkk eeXl dXjj bbhh XXdd ddXX ddcc Xamm Xdee fXXX llXa ddaa bbdd ffkX Xjee iiXaXdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 00100110010001010001 1101110101 1001010101 11011110111 1101110101 01110111010 11010101110 11110101011 1101011101 11101111101 01011101101 10011110101 11010100101 11110011001 0110100110 01110101111 01010100101 1101110101 10011100001 0101011101 1011011101 0100010101 110101111 01001100111 1110011110 0111011101 110100110 1001010101 1101010011 1111010010 0100010101 01101111110 0110100110 1101110101 1111011001 01110111101 11011111 1101011001 0101011101 10010101001 1011001101 1101110101 0001010101 011011111 01110110001 0111010001 10010011001 11110010101 0101010111 1101110111 01001100101 1101000101 1101010101 1111001101 1001110101 1101011111 1110010001 11011100111 0111001111 1001010101 0110001001 1101010001 100110101 11000101101 1111110101 1111001101 0100111111 1101010101 11111101001 1111111111 011110101 1111010101 011101111 1001010101 11110010101 11010001100 11000101000 1101110111 1101011111 1101111101 0101110101 0101010100 01011100101 1110011111 11110101011 0111010101 101110101 11110110001 1111011101 1111010101 1101110110 1100001001110 11110101010 1110111101 10110100111 11110001101 1101011001 0101101111 11011101001 1101111101 0101111111 11110100101 10110010101 11010100101 110101111 11110110101 01010010101 1111110101 11011111000 1011111101 1101010101 0101010101 10010111101 1001110101 0101110101 1101001000 11111010101 1001010111 0111110001 0111101111 11111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 122
  • 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; my, to, in, her, of, i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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