This is an analysis of the poem The Fountain of Pity that begins with:
WE have our tears. This is grief's anodyne,
To know that tears a-many are in store....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXX bcbbX dcdcd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001100 0111010101 11010101001 1111000101 11010111010 11110100101 1100111101 0111010011 1011010101 10011010100 11010110100 1100101101 1111111011 10110011001 1101111101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase they connects the lines.
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- summary of The Fountain of Pity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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