This is an analysis of the poem The Six Sorrows that begins with:
There are six sorrows in my heart—
Red Allen, Clare, and Joan,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCB bcdc bbabab adcd efdf aaea XgXg hicici acdc bhih djaj bkhk giiX bXcX aXhX agaX gakX aclclX aiXiXiXaBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 110111 11111101 110111 11011111 111101 01111111 010111 11011101 110111 11011111 010101 11011111 010101 11110011 011101 11011101 011100 11111101 001111 11110101 110111 10010101 111101 11110101 010111 11010100 110111 11010101 011111 11010101 110101 11110101 010101 11011101 010101 11110011 011111 11110111 011111 11110101 111101 11011111 111111 11111101 111111 01010011 1101101 11011101 010111 11011111 010001 11101111 1111011 11010111 0101110 11111111 010111 11010101 1101110 11110101 111111 11110101 110101 11110101 111101 11010111 1111110 11110101 110101 11111111 111111 11110111 010101 11111111 010101 11111101 010101 11110011 111111 10011101 110101 11110101 111001 11110011 110111 11111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, my, so, i, his are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Six Sorrows;
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