This is an analysis of the poem From Loraine that begins with:
I have seen the plains lying baked and bare,
When drought and famine hold revel there,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbbbb ddaa ddeeddffggddhhfbfX iiddjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,18,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110110111 111101101 1010110101 00111001000 1110110111 0100101011 1100100101 1011110101 1100100101 1110110101 1110100101 0010101101 10100101111 1100101101 110111101 11100111101 1011110111 1011100101 10111100101 1010110100 1011101101 110100111 1110100101 1110110111 1011111101 10100100101 1010101101 1010111100 11100111111 0101100101 10101001001 1110100100 1110101111 00100110101 101100111 1010110101 1010100101 10100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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