This is an analysis of the poem When Shall My Wretched Life that begins with:
When shall my wretched life give place to death?
That my sad cares may be enforc’d to leave me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 11111010011 1101111101 11111111011 0111101101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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.
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