This is an analysis of the poem Iambicum Trimetrum that begins with:
Unhappy verse, the witness of my unhappy state,
Make thy self flutt'ring wings of thy fast flying... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbXaacdXXdXcaecbeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010010101 11110101110 11111011100010 101010010111 101101010111 10011010100100 001101111111 011101111111 0101001011111 11110110011 111011100110 110101100100 1010100101101 101010110111 101011110111 111101101101 111101101101 111111101101 101110101101 10111001111 101110110110000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1072
- Average number of words per stanza: 201
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, love, say, tell, that, wont, to, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, say, tell, now, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines else is repeated).
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More information about poems by Edmund Spenser
- Analysis of The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I
- Analysis of Amoretti Lxxiv: Most Happy Letters
- Analysis of Mutability
