This is an analysis of the poem Lord May I Come? that begins with:
Life and night are falling from me,
Death and day are opening on me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb aaa ccaaaa ddeea ffaXccffaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,6,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 111110011 010111111 10010101 111101 10111011 10111011 111101 11111010 01111110 11101101 111101111 10101011 111101 11011111 11000101 111010001 110100111 110101 10000011 10110101 111101 11111110 01101110 11110111 01011101 11111010 01111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, lord are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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