This is an analysis of the poem Lament that begins with:
PEACE, your little child is dead:
Peace, I cannot weep with you; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacdcdcaeaeaefXfedXdgd ghghgfifif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1111111 1110111 1111101 1110111 1110111 1010101 1011101 1110110 1110101 1010101 11100101 1111111 1111101 1111100 1110101 1011110 1111111 111010110 1111101 1011101 0111111 1110101 1011101 1010111 1110111 1011111 1110111 1110001 11100101 1111100 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words peace, i, love, you are repeated.
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- summary of Lament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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