This is an analysis of the poem A Complaint On The Miseries Of Life that begins with:
I loathe, O Lord, this life below,
And all its fading fleeting joys; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdedfggdbdbeedhdhefdidiiijgjgdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11010101 10111101 11111111 10010101 01010101 10010101 11010101 110111001 01000100 10010101 11010101 01000101 110111010 101111001 11011110 11010101 11010101 1101011 11011101 11010101 10010101 11010101 11001100 01011101 11011101 00111101 1001111 11010101 11111111 11111011 101110011 10111111 01010101 11010101 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1312
- Average number of words per stanza: 220
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'll, what's are repeated.
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