This is an analysis of the poem Song.—when Others Saw Thee that begins with:
When others saw thee gay and vain,
And saw my weakness too,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefdXdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 111101 01010011 111111 11011111 111101 11001101 111101 101111111 110100 11011101 110101 11110101 011100 11110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Song.—when Others Saw Thee;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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