This is an analysis of the poem Weltschmertz that begins with:
You ask why I am sad to-day,
I have no cares, no griefs, you say?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa aacc aadd eeff Xdff ggdd hhii iibb aajj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11111111 111011111 10110101 01110101 01010101 00111101 10010101 01110101 111100101 11010011 11011111 010110111 11011011 00011101 11111111 11110101 011101001 11110101 111101001 11011110 11110111 110011001 11001101 11111100 11001101 01010101 01001101 11111111 010100101 11011111 11010101 11011101 010010111 11011001 11000101 11011101 11010101 11111101 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, no, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the, oh are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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