This is an analysis of the poem Morning Lament that begins with:
OH thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden,
Tell me what great sin have I committed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cbXX Xde fbcgX cfcch hdhX fgaXhghe XXeabh gbdhbga hhXhf XdahdfgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,5,5,4,8,6,7,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010 1111111010 1111001110 1111101010 11100011010 1111111010 10111111100 11111001100 10111111000 1010111010 1011101111 1010101011 1111101110 0011101110 1110101010 1011011010 11111100010 1110101111 1010101010 1110100010 0010101010 101101110100 1110101110 1110101010 11011010010 1010101011 1010100010 1100101010 1011111111 1011111110 1111111010 1010101110 1111101010 100110011100 0111101111 1010111010 0010110010 1010101010 1010101010 1011111010 1111101110 1110101010 11111010100 1010101010 1010101010 10011101010 0011101110 1110111010 10111011100 1110001110 0110111111 1110101010 1011101110 1111100010 1011111110 0010101010 1010101011 1110110010 1010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; thou, come, i, she, ever, and, my, door are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, had, ever, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines silence, me are repeated).
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