This is an analysis of the poem Rondel. (From The Duke Of Orleans) that begins with:

Hence away, begone, begone,
Carking care and melancholy!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAbXbaXAXbabbbA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011010 10111010 1110101 11111111 11111101 10110100 11011010 10111010 01010101 0110100 01011101 11110101 1011011 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ye is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word melancholy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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