This is an analysis of the poem Lament that begins with:
When I was a windy boy and a bit
And the black spit of the chapel fold,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbabcbdede fddgfXdgXhih chjjchXjbbbi dcijhcijkfkf XfdjXfdjdldl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110101101 101100101 1011110010 1111001101 011110111 1100110111 11111010 111111111 0101101101 0100111111 1011010101 001111101 1110101101 101100101 1011110010 101101001 1011110111 1101100101 111001110 10100100111 0101100111 01011000101 101010001 111111001 1110111101 101100101 1011110010 101101111 1100100111 01001001001 1010010010 010100101 001010111 110110111 111110101 111010111 11110111 111110101 1011110011 110111001 110010101 101100101 110100111 110110111 111110111 101110101 1110000111 010101101 111011111 1010110101 1011110010 101101111 1111110011 111110111 0011111110 100111001 1001111001 100101111 100111001 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, in, my are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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