This is an analysis of the poem Circe's Torment that begins with:

I regret bitterly
The years of loving you in both...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXbdeXXaXXbXXdeddcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100 00010101 11011001 010010 101101101 0101011 1000111 111100 1111 00111 11110 1111 101101 1101011010 10101110 100001011 1011 110111 1011 1001011 101 011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; you is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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  • summary of Circe's Torment;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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