This is an analysis of the poem Regret that begins with:
There's no use in regret. You can't change anything.
Your mother died unhappy with the way you turned...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbaccXXXdadaXeeeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001111101 110101000111 111110011101 11111111110 1010111110110 1101001011110 11101111001 0101001010010 1011110101011 01111001011 01100101001111 101011010010110 110011010111001 10110010111010 01101001010001 11100100011 11100100111100 11101011111 11001010100111 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1023
- Average number of words per stanza: 195
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your, of, to, going are repeated.
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- summary of Regret;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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