This is an analysis of the poem Asking In Vain that begins with:
Still his little grave she seeketh
In her mother-sorrow wild, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaBCBCCBXdXXBCBCCBXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 0010101 11001110 0010001 01101010 1010111 11110110 1110101 1011101 10101010 11101010 1111101 11100010 1100100 01101010 1010111 11110110 1110101 1011101 10101010 1010101 10001 1011101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again is repeated).
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