This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Is More Bitter that begins with:
Nothing is more bitter,
Than the taste of one's actions regretted....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba baccXaXbX XbXX Xccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110 1010110010 10100101001 111110010 1010101 11101010 1 1010 0011101011101 01101010 11000101011 011 01111010 01001101 00100100 0111101100 010 101111010 00100010 110010 11000110101 11001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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