This is an analysis of the poem The Speech that begins with:

The long laments I spent for ruin'd Troy,
Are dried; and now mine eyes run teares of joy.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXcXXafccgggghhiiccXXXXXgXjkkhhbb ccbbllafccXXjjmmXXXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111101 11111111001 1111010101 1000100101 1001010101 1101001001 11110101001 0101010001 0111110101 0100010101 0101001110010 1101010101 0111010011 1111010010 0111011111 1101010100 1111010111 01010011001 1101011011 11110010101 1001111101 0111010101 11001110101 1101111111 1110011010 01100101010 1111111101 11110010101 1101011101 1101001101 1111110001 01110111110 01011100001 0101010100 0111010101 0011010111 11010100111 11011110001 0111010101 1011110111 1101111001 1111011001 0101010100 1111011111 0100110101 0101010111 0101110101 1011010101 1111011101 1101010100 1101011101 1110010011 01001011101 1101110101 11010011101 11111101001 0011110011 11110111001 1111111110 1100010011 1011110100 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1360
  • Average number of words per stanza: 248
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; as, to, and are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of The Speech;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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