This is an analysis of the poem The Pain Of The Earth that begins with:
DOES the earth grow grey with grief
For her hero darling fled? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcB dbdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1010101 1011111 0110111 1011101 1000101 1010101 0110111 1010111 1010101 0011111 0110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word shed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Pain Of The Earth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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