This is an analysis of the poem An Elegy On Parting that begins with:
It was a sad, ay 'twas a sad farewell,
I still afresh the pangs of parting feel; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeccffXXgghhiiiiffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110111 1101010101 0111110101 1011010101 1001001101 1111110101 100111110011 1101001101 0101010101 1001010111 1101011101 11010011101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1001011111 0110010111 01010010111 0101011101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 0011011101 1101111101 111011001011 0101010011 0111010101 1101111101 1111111101 11010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1335
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, with, in, vain are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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