This is an analysis of the poem On Tears that begins with:
Tears is the break of my brow,
The moony tempestuous...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcXXdXcXbddbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011 0101100 1010110 1011101 010001010 110101 010100 1100101 11101010 1110101 0100100 1010 01001101 11001 110 10 1011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines be is repeated).
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