This is an analysis of the poem The Epic Of Sadness that begins with:

Your love taught me to grieve
and I have been in need, for centuries...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbABCBD eefgb eeeebbhXeibjgeb geXeXkek IiXdebalambjbXiXbkeXadggem Ibibfkg hbbb fbfkmblbmeXXXAbABCBD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,15,8,26,7,4,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 1110011100 0100111 1010010101 1010 1010010110 1101010 111111100110 0111011101 100101 001000100 0101010 01110111 01011 1111011 1011 100111 001001 1011110 1000 10001001010 11111 01001110 1010101 111010010 10101101 10101011010 11101010 00010010 110111010 010010 1011 111010 10100110 0100110010 1111 001101 011101 0101 010101001 1011101010 111111 100101 11111111 011010 11111 10100101 11110101 110010010 111111101 01010 11 1010100001 11 1010001010010000 1111111101011111111 010001110 1111110 100100 0110111 0101010010 1111 1011011 001101 01101 0010010 001001110 001000110 11110110 0110001011 010011 011011 1111001 1010010 01100101 10100100010 10101010010 01100101010 1100010101 101011010 11111010110 0111101 10100111 0010011010 111101 1110101100 0100111 1010010101 1010 1010010110 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 91
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, all, person, love, i, in, without, names are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, even, that, upon, in, as are repeated.

    The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases even, in connect the lines.

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  • summary of The Epic Of Sadness;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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