This is an analysis of the poem Blasted Hopes that begins with:
What gladness and what joy
are endowed to one who is loved...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd ecfe gbhi iahd dXaf agXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 10101101 11010101 10100101 11011111 011000101 1101111 11001101 110101 01011010 101110101 1111000 111010 11110101 10110100101 1111111 111001 11101100 1111101 001011 11001101 01100111 101111101011 01011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, it, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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