This is an analysis of the poem A Lover's Lament that begins with:
In vain do springtime's many charms essay
To chase the gloom in Aray's glen to-day ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dd eeffaacc eeccgghhffbbaXbbiiXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,8,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110010101 0101010101 01111111001 1101011101 1111111101 1101010111 1111110111 10011000001 1101111111 0110010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001100111 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 0111010101 0101000111 0101001101 1101101101 1111110111 1101111101 1000110101 1111010101 1011000101 1101110011 11011100101 1001011101 1101010101 0101110100 1101110101 0101001101 1101110101 1001111111 00111011110 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, my are repeated.
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- summary of A Lover's Lament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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