This is an analysis of the poem The Tear that begins with:
When Friendship or Love
Our sympathies move;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccbddb eebffb ccbaab ggbeeb hhbhhb ggbhhb bbbXXb Xfbiib ffbffb ffbjjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11001 11001101 01101 001011 101010001 11001 1010001 01100011 11011 101001 01101001 11001 011001 101001001 01001 101001 101001001 01101 001001 11001001 1111001 111001 01101001 01011 101001 01001001 111001 101011 111001001 001101 101001 010011001 101101 101001 001111001 11011 101011 11111101 101111 101111 111111101 111111 011011 11001111 001001 1010010 101011001 101010 111101 01111101 001101 111111 101001001 11011 101101 01011011 001111 001001 111111001 111101 001001 111101101 111101 111001 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Tear;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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