This is an analysis of the poem Consolation that begins with:
SO YOU 'RE sobbin' in the night time, an' you 're sighin' through the day,
An' your heart is ever callin' for the loved one gone away; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aXcc ccdd eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001111110101 111010101011101 111011101110111 101011100110101 10110010111110111 1101010101110111 110010001010101 001111101010101 111011101111101 111110101110111 101011101110101 1001111111010111 011110100110101 1111001101110010 1111001110110101 111111100011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', to, must, we, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', we are repeated.
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- summary of Consolation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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