This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Unto Pity that begins with:
Pite, that I have sought so yore agoo
With herte soore and ful of besy peyne,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXb XXXXXXX XXXcXXX XXXdXXX XbXXXXX XbXXXXX XdXXdXX XXXXXXX c eXedXff XXXXXeX XXXXXXX XgXffXX eXXaXee XfXfXXX gXgaaff XXXXXXX XaXaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 011110101 1001110111 101111111 110101010 0101110 011111111 11110101010 1100101101 0111110010 010111110 1011010110 1101001101 1111110011 1011111101 1101110111 1111010110 11001111011 1101110101 1101111101 1111111101 111111101 1011110111 1101111101 011101011 11110111 0101110001 1101011110 1110010101 1111110111 1101100111 111111100 11111101100 11111111 1111011111 1011110100 100101111 110111100 1111110 01101110 101011100 100111110 0101110011 101101101 111101011 110101111 111111111 1011100101 101111110 111111011 1001111111 1000111010011 1110011101 1111110110 1011111111 1001110101 01001 10001100100 1010100101 1010110100 110111111 1101011010 1111010101 1111011101 11011101 10010110 101001001 111111110 01100110 1110011011 1111000010 1100111001 111010101 110011111 01100100 101001001 1101110011 0101101101 11100101100 1011010 11011000 101111101 101101011 01110010 1111101100 110101110 1101101001 111111110 1011100111 1011110010 11110011 11100110011 1101111001 1111110011 1110111101 11111101001 1101011101 1110110101 1101110111 11001111010 11111110110 110100111110 1111011111 1101111011 1111010101 1101111111 1100110011 1100111110 1111111011 1111111111 111101111 11001111110 1011111101 00011101010 11111111 10110110100 1110110111 1101101101 1111111111 011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, and, that, hir, my, of, ye, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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