This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady And Her Children that begins with:
O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song:
From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddeeccccbbc cbb ccbbffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10001010111 0101010101 1101110110 1111101101 0101010101 10101110101 0111010101 1110110101 0101010101 10111100101 10101010101 0101110111 1101010101 11110111010 1011010101 1110001101 11000100101 1101010111 0101010101 1101000101 1001011101 0111011001 1101011101 1101110101 1111111001 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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