This is an analysis of the poem The Greek Girl’s Lament For Her Lover that begins with:
IMRA! thy form is vanished
From the proud and patriot band; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaca defefcXc XgbgacXc dhehecfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 00111001 1011010 1010001 1101110 011101 1111011 110011 10101010 111111 10101110 110011 1111010 0111110 1101110 1110111 11010010 1111101 1111110 0010011 0101110 0110101 110101 111101 00111110 1010101 10111110 110101 0101110 110111 1101110 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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