This is an analysis of the poem The Maiden's Lament that begins with:
The clouds fast gather,
The forest-oaks roar--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaccb XdbdeeX fgXGccX fgXGccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 01011 010010 01011 0101100101 1110100101 01110010 1011011 01001 0010110 11001 11100100101 11111111111 1101001100 1010110 01111 1010110 11101 101111011011 111011011101 11111101110 10010110 101111 1010110 11101 111011001001 11011011101 10111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more 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; with, thy, can, though are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, in, though are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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