This is an analysis of the poem Sorrow that begins with:
To the melody of "Sheng Sheng Man"
I pine and peak...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabcddcb XceefXfgc hdXiidheejjkcgkcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,9,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100010110 1111 1101 10110010110 100101101111 11 11 011 111001010 1001 01101 11111011101 110111 01110111 10110101 0011 01011 01100101 0111 1101 1101 1110110 11110 010111 1011110101 1111010101 010100 101111 110101 1101001 1101011 11011 01111111 1101 01101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Sorrow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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