This is an analysis of the poem Lamentations Of Jeremiah I: Sorrows Of Captive Zion that begins with:
1 How doth the city sit solitary,
that was full of people! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdda efggd ahief ifehf gda hgg dhgf hhgXh fhgiX dai hbb jcjg dkelj hlbdm jiX mgjeh dgXkk febca jad fhjhXX jjbehjXjde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,3,3,4,5,5,3,3,4,5,5,3,5,5,5,3,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011010 111010 101011010 111101010 110010100 101011010 11101001 1011101 0110101110100 10111100000 11010100 11001000100 01001010101101 11001010 11011 10101010100101 10101011 011100101 1011100 0110101010 1100100 101010101010010 101101001010100010 01011000100010100 11001001010100010 0101011111110 1111011010010 1010001000100010100100 1010111100101 1010100010010011010 01010101011010 1010011001 111001 11100010 011110100 111011010 101000001 110001011 111111000111100 11011010 10100110101 101010111010110101 11111010100001010 111011111100011010 110101111 111011011100101 1111010111011 100100111111 01110101010110110 101101 100011010100100110 1001111100011 10100010 11101111 11111 111110011101 1010101001101 11101110111 1111101 01101010011 0111110011 1011101011110100101 111101001101111 01110010010010100100 111111 1111101010 0101001101110101 1101100 01010001 11010101 11010100 01101001010 101010101011 01000101010010 101010 11101010010 1111110 101110 110111111000100 111111011011 11111011010010 1111100111 10111111001 110110 1101011 11110001 0101100 111011 1111111 1010101 11100110110 11111110 111011111 11101101 11111001011 111001111101111010 11111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 97
- 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; her, and, of, she, hath, he, my, thou, unto are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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- Analysis of Lamentations Of Jeremiah V: A Prayer For Mercy
- Analysis of Lamentations Of Jeremiah Iii: Hope Of Relief Through God's Mercy
- Analysis of Lamentations Of Jeremiah Ii: Zion's Sorrows Come From The Lord
