This is an analysis of the poem The Condolence that begins with:
O my fellow sufferers, songs of my youth,
A lot of asses praise you because you are 'virile',...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXb aXccdXXcdcbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001011 01010110111100 1111111 0100110100 1100111001 11110 11101001111001 1000101010100 1111001001 11000010011 10101010010 1011010 111110101 1101011010 1100101001 101110100 11101011 101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Condolence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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