This is an analysis of the poem Ode For New Year's Day that begins with:
Woe unto you, ye sons of pain that are this day in earth,
Now cry for all your torment: now curse your hour of birth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbbbbbcbc deedfggfegge XhXhijibjbeekfkff lbbl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,12,17,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101110101 11111011111001 101010110010101 11110101111111 11111001111100 1101111110101 110110010011111 0101010001011100 1011110011111 10111010111011 1101010111001 11011100010101 1111011100111 11011000011001 001110101110101 11011100101111 1111110001111 1111010111101 110010010110101 0101010110101 11001101111101 1111110110111 1111100010101 0101110110101 010111101010110 01111001101010 11001101011111 111101001001010 11011101101111 01100111010011 1111110101111 11010100101011 1001010111011100 11001010110111 101101101110110100 100101010100101 11110100111101 1101110111101 11111001111101 01011110010101 1111110110111 1110111101101011 11001111011101 0011010010101 01001101011011 00101011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, he, could, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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