This is an analysis of the poem To Monica Thought Dying that begins with:
You, O the piteous you!
Who all the long night through... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdXeecXcfbXaagccghhXee bfddiijKKX aaddXXllckaaKKXckXjXmlhhmmhhkklXkklbblkfblk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,10,43,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 110111 100000 011001 010001 0111010001 111111 10001 0111001 1111 101101 11111000 11111111 11111100 110101 01100000 101001111 010111 111101 1110000011 0101010111 11011111 101100 111101 1101111000 101111 11111101001 111101 0101010100 101111 0010001 1101010 10110101010 11100010101 11010 110001 110101 111111 1101110101 0101111111 111101 01010011111 0101001100 1101 0101010101 1101101100 1101000001 1101010111 010001 11010 110001 1101010101 101100 100001 1011110101 1101001 011100 111110 1101001 100101 0101010011 101101 10011011101 110101 01010101001 001100 1011011001 110111 0111100110 11010010001 0101010111 111101 010001 0101111101 01011000101 1111111101 010100 011111 0101010001 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 850
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you, my, his, straw are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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- summary of To Monica Thought Dying;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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