This is an analysis of the poem The Sorrow Tugs that begins with:
There's a lot of joy in the smiling world,
there's plenty of morning sun, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaaCdC ecbcacfc eegeXchc eefegaca XhehaCdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010100101 1100101 110111101 1100111 11011000101 1110101 1010100101 10101111 1010110101 1100101 1010110101 1100101 110101101 1101101 10101010111 0101111 0101110101 1110101 0101100111 11011001 010110111 1111101 1011111111 1101101 0110100101 1011101 01110101 1110001 1011110111 1011101 0101011001 1111001 011111101 1111101 011100101 0011101 1100100101 1110101 010100101 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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