This is an analysis of the poem A Lament that begins with:
O well for him who lives at ease
With garnered gold in wide domain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabaabcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 01010101 11010001 01010101 11111111 00100100 01010111 01010101 11111111 01010111 10010001 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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