This is an analysis of the poem A Cry that begins with:
Lord, hear my discontent: all blank I stand,
A mirror polished by thy hand;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdeedffaabg ghhdXddiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011111 01010111 11111101 1101011111 01001101 11110101 11110101110 1111010011010 0111110101 1111010 1101010 01010101 11111101 01010101 11010101 010001001 1101 11 1101010111 010001010101 10011 11010111 11111101 11110101 01110101 1101010101 11111111 1111010101 1011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1011
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of A Cry;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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