This is an analysis of the poem Can Be No Sorrow that begins with:
That narrow cot, hardly any bigger than a child's, is where Droste died
(it's there in her museum in Meersburg),...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbabbccde bXbabb cXdXXXbXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010101010111 0100010010 1110100010110100 1110110101000100 01010111 101110 11111 10011111010 100000100 001001010001010 11011010101 010110101 1101000111 1100011101111011 01110101 11011010 10110110101 1111100 1111 11100111 11000101 01010001 1111 11 010001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; in, of, and, no, too are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
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- summary of Can Be No Sorrow;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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