This is an analysis of the poem Lamenting The Absence Of A Cherished Friend that begins with:
Though small my basket, all my toil
Filled it with mouse-ears but in part....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cbXb XdedXaebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 10011101 11010111 10110011 111011111 11111101 11010111 11010101 01110111 01111111 010110001 11110001 10011111 11110111 11010101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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