This is an analysis of the poem Lesbia’s Sparrow that begins with:
All you Loves and Cupids cry
and all you men of feeling...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXaXXXcXXdXabdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1111010 111001 1101010 1111101 111011011 10111010 11011001 11001111 110001001 1101001 1110010 1001101 010010010 111001001001 111111010 01011111 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; he, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of Lesbia’s Sparrow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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