This is an analysis of the poem Gloomy Madrigal that begins with:
What's it to me that you are sage?
Be beautiful! and be sad! Tears ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfghhieffjgXhdhXXbahibjhbjXXchheggbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 01001011 10100100 10110011 11010101 11110111 101011 11101010 10101001 01110101 11111111 111111 01011111 10100111 10101110 11010010 010101 1001011 11011111 00111111 1 11111010 010101 110101 11110011 10001001 11111111 110101 100110110 10010110 01001011 10001100 10010101 10010101 11111001 11010001 110111 11110010 00010110 10111101 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1337
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; to, when, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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