This is an analysis of the poem Tears For Lesbia’s Sparrow that begins with:
Sparrow, my sweet girl’s delight,
whom she plays with, holds to her breast, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 11101001 11011010100 1001010011 01011001010 0101011 101111001 0100101001 11101111 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whom is repeated.
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