This is an analysis of the poem Mockery that begins with:

I met my love a-weeping,
Weeping in the night-tide pale;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcccdeedffggcc abcccheXhiijjcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 1000111 01010101 1011101 1101 11010101 111 0011 00111 11010001 11110001 11011101 11011101 11010101 11010101 1111010 1000101 1010001 1000101 0111 11010101 011 1011 10101 11010111 010101001 11010111 11110001 11100101 11110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; weeping, i, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tomb is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word tomb at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases weeping, sleeping connect the lines.

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  • summary of Mockery;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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