This is an analysis of the poem Lament For Banba that begins with:
O MY land! O my love!
What a woe, and how deep, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabcDX efgefgDX XhcdhXDX cigcigDX jkljklDX eemegmXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111111 101111 011011101 101101 101101 101101011 0101101 101110010 101001 101101 111101001 111111 101101 1010101101 0101101 101110010 111011 001111 011110101 101111 111101 101101010 0101101 101110010 011001 011001 001001011 101011 111001 001011001 0101101 101110010 101111 001111 101110101 101101 101101 101101011 0101101 101110010 111011 111111 111101001 1010111 101101 101111011 1111101001 101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; my, alas are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words can, is are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word banba at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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