This is an analysis of the poem Forgotten Sorrow that begins with:
A stranger grief than any grief by music told
Is mine: regret for unremembered loves, and faces...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacbcaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010111011101 01011100001110 1101010111110 100101110101 101101011101 0111110111010 01010010111100 011100010101 0110011101010 1101010101001 0101011101110 1100010111101 010101000001 110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 701
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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