This is an analysis of the poem O All My Labours Scattered Uselessly that begins with:
O all my labours scattered uselessly
O, all my useless scattered sighs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXaaX aXccab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110101000 11110101 110011011010 11110101110 110100101 010111101 1111000010 11100111 11001010101 111110101 01110111 101111101 1101001101 01110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; o is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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