This is an analysis of the poem The Widow To Her Son’s Betrothed that begins with:
I.
AH, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXcdedeX fefegfgfX babahghgX iiiiXihia cicifbfba ididididX ajajkdkdX ididdgdgX dXdbaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1101011101 1111000101 10010111100 0101000111 11010111001 1101010011 1111010101 0111001101 1 1101110101 1111010101 0101010111 1101000101 11010101011 1111111101 1111010101 1011010001 1 1111010101 0101111111 01000110001 1011010101 1111010101 1101111101 01001111101 1111111101 1 1111111101 1111010111 10010100101 10101101101 11010100110 1101110101 01001010111 1101011101 1 1101010111 1011010101 1001010101 1011110001 1111011111 1101110101 1101010001 1100011101 1 01010100101 1111110101 11110000101 11010100111 01001010101 10011010101 1101100101 0101010101 1 1111110101 1111111101 1101001101 1111010111 1110010101 0111110111 1100110011 0111010001 1 1011011111 1111010101 1111110100 0100011101 1101110111 11111100011 1101010111 11010110101 1 1011100101 1111001000 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101 1011100010 0101111101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, how, thou, can'st, to, i, know, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, when, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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