This is an analysis of the poem Thoughtless Cruelty that begins with:
There, Robert, you have killed that fly,
And should you thousand ages try... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cccb aaab bbbb cccb Xbbb bbbd Xeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11110101 01110001 11110 11011001 01110101 01111101 11110 11010111 11010101 11111001 01101 10010101 010100001 11011001 11100 01110101 110011001 11011010 11010 11110101 01110111 11001111 11010 01010111 11011100 010011111 01010 11110111 11010101 11111101 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, in are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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