This is an analysis of the poem Love's Distresses that begins with:
WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to?
Who would pity me that heard my sorrows?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabacdacXbdeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111010 1110111110 10111110100 1011101010 1010101110 1001101010 1110101110 1110101010 0010111000 1110101110 10110111010 1011001011 10101011010 0011101010 0111110101 1110100000 1110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 700
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
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