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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