This is an analysis of the poem The Triumph Of Melancholy that begins with:
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Memory, be still! why throng upon the thought... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab X cdcd X ebeb X fgfg X eeee X caXa X chch X ieXe X gaga X jhjh X bcbc X ebeb X cfcf X caca X hkhk X fcfc X efef X acal X cccc X aXac X bbbb X afaf X baba X kgkg X cmcm X cbcb X fcfc X fgfg X efef X cfXf X ebeb X caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 10001110101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010101 1 1001011101 11010101001 1101110101 11011011001 1 1101010101 11010010101 10011100101 11010101001 1 1100110101 1111010101 1111011101 11111110011 1 11110101001 1011010101 01110010101 1001011101 1 11100010101 1011111001 11010101010 1111010101 1 1101010111 10110010101 1011010101 11110101001 1 0011001101 111011100101 1101011101 11011101001 1 11001111101 0101110101 1100011101 01111001001 1 11110101010 1011110001 11010001010 01110101001 1 0101011101 11110010101 110010010101 1101010101 1 1101010101 0011000101 1111010101 11110110001 1 10011010101 0111010101 1001010111 1011010101 1 1111110001 1011010111 1011010101 0001010101 1 1000100110101 1101011101 01001010101 1001001101 1 010101011001 11010111001 1101110101 11011101001 1 1101111101 1011011101 1111110101 11011100101 1 0111010101 10111101001 01101000101 01110100101 1 1101000101 0111011101 1101011101 11001110101 1 1111010011 10010010101 1101010101 1001010101 1 1101010101 11010010111 1111001111 11011100101 1 11111100111 0010101101 11010101001 1101010101 1 1101110111 1101110111 1101110101 1101111101 1 1101010101 1101011101 1111011101 11010100101 1 11001110101 1101010101 11001111101 11010101001 1 10001110101 00101011101 10111111001 0101010101 1 1101010101 1111110001 1101010101 11010101010 1 0111000101 0101110101 0101010101 101101010001 1 1101010011 1101110101 0101111001 1101010101 1 1101010101 11010101110 1001011110 10111101010 1 11011100101 1011001101 1100011101 11111100111 1 11011100101 1101011101 1101110101 11000110001 1 11110110101 01001010101 1001010101 1011110101 1 1101111101 011001100010 0101100101 1100010101 1 1101010101 1011010011 1101010101 10001010101 1 1001010101 00100011101 1101000101 1101111101 1 1101010111 10101010011 11011000101 11001110101 1 10110100101 0111111101 11010110001 11110111001 1 1111011101 1101010101 1001010101 1011110101 1 1101110111 11011010001 10101111101 1101001101 1 1101100101 1001000101 1101010101 1101011101 1 1110011101 1101111101 1111010101 0101010101 1 1111010001 1101110001 110100101001 1101000101 1 11110001001 1101100101 11000110101 0101010101 1 1111010101 1101110111 0101111101 1101010001 1 1101010101 11110101001 0011000101 0111010101 1 1101010101 11010101001 11011100111 11010101001 1 101010100001 01010101001 10101010111 0101011101 1 110010001 11010011101 11010100010 1101110001 1 1101010101 111000101 0011010101 1101010101 1 1101101001 1101110101 1001011101 100001010101 1 0111000101 0101010001 0111001101 0110010101 1 1001010101 11010111110 11110000111 1101110111 1 010011100111 11001010101 10011011111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 108
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 323
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, thy, what, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, nor, and, who, thy, what, or, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Triumph Of Melancholy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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