This is an analysis of the poem Etesia Absent that begins with:

Love, the world's life! What a sad death
Thy absence is to lose our breath... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffdXggffhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011 11000111 11110101 01010101 01111101 11010011 10010111 01110110 00011101 01011101 110010111 01111101 11110011 11011101 10010101 0101110 11110101 110110111 11111011 10111111 11111111 11111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 778
  • Average number of words per stanza: 150
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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