This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Lesbia’s Sparrow that begins with:
Mourn, O you Loves and Cupids
and such of you as love beauty:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXaddXXXcaXbXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 11011110 111001 100101 1111101 1111110110 111010110 1101001 11001111 10001001 111101001 01111101 1110011011010 1010101010 110101001 1101111010 11110111 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; her, as, evil are repeated.
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