This is an analysis of the poem Indignations that begins with:
My Lord and I decided...
That we were so divided...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aXbcc b adddefXd gad HcXHgdhfXXXhdaddeda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,1,8,3,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 1101010 111101 1110111 1111110 11011 1101010 110011 11001111 111 1110 1111010111 011011 1110111 1111000101 1111011 1101111 11011101 010100011101 1010001 1010110001 11110100 111101 011011 11110100 1111001 01110101 11110100 111101 01110111 1011111 1110100 111 011 1100 0001001111 01010011011 011 111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, they, to, me, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Indignations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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