This is an analysis of the poem Cruel, Behold My Heavy Ending that begins with:
Cruel, behold my heavy ending,
See what you wrought by your disdaining.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010 111111010 1001111010 1101001010 101111111 010111010 111111111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
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