This is an analysis of the poem Lament that begins with:
WHEN you hear the white-throat pealing
From a tree-top far away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababcXccdXdXeeeceXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 0011101 10111010 1010001 10101010 10101001 10101010 1010101 10111010 1000111 10101010 10010101 11111011 1010101 10100010 11000001 10101010 1011111 101110010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; to is repeated.
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- summary of Lament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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