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

With saddest music all day long
She soothed her secret sorrow:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXaX bcbcbc dXdXdX bebebe efefef ghghgh chXhcX dXdede ijijij jeXejX fhbhbX XXedeXXjhjhjh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010111 1101010 111110111 1101011 10010101 11010100 11011111 1111010 11011101 1011010 11111101 0111110 11010111 0101110 11010101 0101110 10111101 1101110 11110101 0101010 01010101 0101010 10010101 0111010 11111101 0110110 11111101 1101010 01010101 1100010 01010101 1111110 10011101 1111010 11010101 1110010 10110101 0101010 01010111 0101010 111011101 11011000 111010111 010101000 101010011 10110101 010101101 01010100 11110111 0101010 01110011 1001010 11110101 0001110 11000101 0101010 10000101100 10101010 10110111 11010000 01110100 10010010 10011110011 1111010 101010111 00110100 0101011010 10101110110 01110111 1111011 11010101 100100 01110111 0100010 01010101 0100010 1001101111 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, to, thou, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to 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 Melancholetta;
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  • history of its creation;
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