This is an analysis of the poem Poem 19 that begins with:

LEt no lamenting cryes, nor dolefull teares,
Be heard all night within nor yet without:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXaaXXXXXbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101110010 0111011101 111110101010 110101001 11010101101 110110 11110001101001 1110111011 11110100110 111110111111 11001101 1101110101 1011011101 111110101 11010110110 111100101110 11001110 1101110101 1110101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 836
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; nor, not, let are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ne, nor are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).

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