This is an analysis of the poem The Sorrows Of A Simple Bard that begins with:
WHEN I tell a tale of virtue and of injured innocence,
Then my publishers and lawyers are the densest of the dense:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ffaa gghh cccc aaii bbdd jjffh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010100 111001101010001 001101101010101 101010101110101 111111101001001 111110101010100 111111111110111 101011101110101 011010101010111 111110101010101 111010100110101 111110101010101 1011111001010111 101010111000101 001010101011101 111010101110101 1110101011111010 1110101000100010 101110101010001 111101101111101 101100110011101 111011101011011 101111101011111 100010101010101 1011011101010100 111001100110100 111010101110111 10110101010101 11100110101101 101011101110101 111010101010001 10101010110101 111101111111111 1011001101010111 11101101111100101 111010101010110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
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; of, and, when, their, both, s, my, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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