This is an analysis of the poem A Complaint To His Lady that begins with:
In the long night, when every creature should
naturally take some rest, or else his life cannot long... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcddaeffgdghficacjbXgXagXkhhXljikebggfgmXgdaajaaaggmXfljegaaegefdieedbijggXfafbflhacggeXfmXffgi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 97,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111100101 10001111101101 111011001101 111111011011 1011011110101 10001010101 101101001111 111111110110 110110101111 0110101111101 101011 0111111101001 101011010101111 11101101111111 011001011101 11011111101 100111011011 101100101101 10101011001 11001111010 01110110110 1010100111011 1100111111111 110110101111 1011010101010001 111101110111 1101111011010 1111111101100 1011101011111 1111100111001 111110 01111111011 111101111101110 111111101011111 101111101110110 0111010111010 01111111100 11101111110101 110101011111 1111001 010111111111 1110011101111 1101110111011010 111010110011 1101111101010 1111010111111 011011111111 1111111111010 11101011110 11010010110010 111001110111 011001111 100111110110 100101100111010 11111101110111 111101110101 11011001111111 101011111000 11110010110101 1110011101011 1111111011011 11111101011 1010111110110 011110110111 010011100111111 11110010111111 01111111011110 111111111001 100001011010100 10111011111 111110110111 1101110001111 110111111110111 11101011111110 01111011010 01111101101011 1111011011000 1011011100101 101001100011 10001111101111 111101101101 1111111110001 10111101110101 110010101111111 0101101111111 1011110011111 10111101101011 0101111101011 001010100111 1010101111110 0100100111101101 101101111111 011110100111101 111011011101 11111111011 1001010111001 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4886
- Average number of words per stanza: 996
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me, my, in, her, that, and, all, to, ever, you, so, for, your, have, as are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and is repeated).
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