This is an analysis of the poem To Our Lady Of Consolation that begins with:
When by the ills of life dismay'd,
I pine in sorrow, pain, and care. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdX eaeaefeXX ebebgcgXX hihiafafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010111 11010111 11011111 01111101 10010111 01111101 010010101 10001000 11010101 010100111 11011111 111100001 01101111 01011101 11010111 00100101 10001000 11010011 010111001 01010111 01110101 01101101 01111001 11110101 100110100 10001000 101101010 11110101 011111010 11011111 11010101 010010101 01011101 11000101 10001000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word afflictorum at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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