This is an analysis of the poem Tears that begins with:
When I consider Life and its few years --
A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccaXdeXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011010 0101011101 0101010101 1011010111 01100111001 01110100111 010101110001 1101010001 1111110100 1011110001 11001010111 1101111110 1111111101 1001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
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