This is an analysis of the poem Reproach that begins with:
Had I but known yesterday,
Helen, you could discharge the ache... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXbXcd edfdefXcg Xcghhege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 10110101 1001 111101111 010010101 101011 110110110 010110001101 11110110 111111010 10101111 10101 011011011 01110110010 1111 10110101 10011001 1101101 11110101 10010111 01001 011111100 1111101100 1111101010 11 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines beautiful is repeated).
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- summary of Reproach;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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