This is an analysis of the poem Alas! What A Wretched Life Is This! that begins with:
Alas! What a wretched life is this!
Nay what a death! Where tyrant Love commandeth!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010100 11011101100 11011011010 11111111100 111101001110 111101011110 11010111010 111100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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- Analysis of All Pleasure Is Of This Condition
- Analysis of And Though My Love Abounding
- Analysis of Ay Me; Can Every Rumour
