This is an analysis of the poem An Apology that begins with:
Blame not my tears, love, to you has been given
The brightest, best gift, God to mortals allows; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdbdbefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011010 01011101001 011011111010 11011101101 11111110110 11011011001 1110100011110 010111011010 110111010110 01001011001 0110111011110 1010111001101 11111101101 111011101101 111001001101 101001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 852
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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