This is an analysis of the poem Song I that begins with:
Lordly gallants! tell me this
(Though my safe content you weigh not),... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd ebebffee ghghgghh ihiheeee jklkhhee Xjbjllll XXfgeeii gmgmbbee dXdmmmnn lblXhhgg eheXllnn eoeojlee apapeepp phphbbee ohohnngg lXlXppee ghgheebbXleleeepp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 11110111 0110111 11111011 1110111 1111111 1011101 1111111 1011100 01111111 1111101 10101111 1111101 1110111 1110111 1111101 1110101 1110001 1110111 1011101 1110111 11100101 1010111 1110101 1110101 1010101 11111001 0111111 1110111 1110101 1111100 1111101 10111010 11111110 1110101 10101010 1110111 1000111 0010110 1011101 1110111 110001110 1110111 11101010 1111111 1110101 1010011 1010111 1110011 10111100 1111111 10111110 1110101 1111110 1110111 1011111 0111111 00101110 1110101 110110 1111101 1010101 1101100 1111011 1011101 11101100 1110111 01111010 11111010 1011111 1111101 1011100 1010111 00101010 1110111 10101110 1011101 1110101 1110101 1110101 1110101 1011111 1111100 10011110 0101101 1010111 1110101 1111111 1111101 11111010 1111111 10110010 1111010 1001111 11001101 0111100 111111 11111011 1110100 10110011 1011100 1110101 1110110 1010111 0110111 11101010 1010011 11101010 1110111 1010111 1111101 11101000 1111101 1110001 1111111 1111101 1110111 1010100 1110101 1011001 1110101 10101110 1010101 100111100 1111111 1110101 1010111 1111110 1010111 1111111 1110101 1110101 11001101 1011110 1011011 1111001 0111101 11111111 1111111 10111011 1111111 1111101 1110101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 144
- 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; i, have, and, to, you, for, in, or, your are repeated.
The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Song I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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