This is an analysis of the poem The Thankless Lady that begins with:

It is May, and the moon leans down at night
Over a blossomy land;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb bfbX gbgb aeae hfhfXcaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0011011111 1001001 100100101 0010101 110011101 111001 1111101001 0101101 100101011 1111101 10111100 011101 11011001001 101111 1011001001 10101101 01101011001 010101 0110110101 111111 101101111 110101 1100100101 1010101 110101101 00100101 1100100101 11001001 10101101001 10101101 111110101 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her, in are repeated.

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

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