This is an analysis of the poem By A Dismal Cypress Lying: A Song From The Italian that begins with:
By a dismal cypress lying,
Damon cried, all pale and dying,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaBBcdcdefefaAaBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10111110 1011111 11011101 01010 10110 11010 11010 10111 11110 11011 11110 110101111010 10101010 10111110 1011111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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