This is an analysis of the poem The Dirge that begins with:
Deserted of her Spouse, she sat lamenting in the chamber.
Hast thou gone and left me, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Bcbbc Bdeed bfggf aghhg gicci Xehhe ajkkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001110100010 111111 1011101 1101 0101 011101 111111 1010101 1101 1110 010111 101111 1110101 1101 1101 110111 101010 10010101 1111 0101 1001001 101110 00010101 0111 1101 010101 1101010 1011101 1111 0111 110111 111010 1111101 1111 1111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Dirge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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