This is an analysis of the poem The Lover's Resolution that begins with:
SHALL I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman 's fair? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbb ccddeebb ffeeggbb bbcchhbbXaaffhhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001 10101011 1111101 0010101 0110101 1010101 1111101 1111110 1110101 0110101 1010110 1001010 0110101 1011100 1101101 1111110 1010101 1010101 1011001 1110111 0101101 1110101 1101101 1111010 0010111 1110111 1110101 0110111 1100111 1010101 1011111 1111110 1101111 1010101 0111001 1011111 0111111 1111101 1010111 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, be, or, for, i are repeated.
The author used the same word shall at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Lover's Resolution;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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