This is an analysis of the poem I Cried At Pity—not At Pain that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXb Xbcb bdad XbbX Xbcb abXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110111 110101 1010110001 010101 11110011 010101 111101001 011101 0011101001 110101 110101010 110101 1101111 110001 11111001 1111010 11111101 111101 01111111 111101 1100111001 110111 11011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, to, and are repeated.
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