This is an analysis of the poem A Complaint that begins with:
Why - can anybody say? -
Has upon my natal day...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbXcdd cceecaXffXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001 1011011 1010101 0010001 111111100 101110100 10101100 10101110 1010001 11010001 1010111 1010110 10001010 100101010 10010111 1110111 1110100 11111010 11101110 1011011 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; or is repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase one connects the lines.
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- summary of A Complaint;
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