This is an analysis of the poem Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill that begins with:

And thou wert sad—yet I was not with thee!
And thou wert sick, and yet I was not near;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebbe ffXfgghiihhiaccXccbjjbffccefefkcckddddiiaffccXll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111101 1111111111 1011110110 1111111101 1001001101 1101110101 0101101111 1100010101 0010011001 11100110011 1001010101 1101010101 1111011111 10011101111 0001001110 10101111100 1001010001 1001100101 1111000101 1111011111 0101001011 11110010111 1110110111 0101000111 1111011111 1101111101 1001110001 1101100000 11010111010 10111111110 1111111111 1101011011 10110110001 1110111111 10011010111 0100101101 0101000011 11010110101 1111110101 1110110011 11110010101 1101010101 1011011101 1000000101 1011011101 1101011101 1111000101 0101111101 0111011111 1001010011 0110000100 1000010111 01010001001 1101010011 0100010010 0101001111 1101000101 1101010100 0101010101 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 242
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, i, not, in, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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