This is an analysis of the poem On Monsieur's Departure that begins with:
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbb cacaaX bdbdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111001 1111110101 1111111101 1111110001 1111111111 1011010111 1101111001 10110111010 1111111111 01010111110 1111011011 1101010010 1101010011 1111110101 1011011101 1111110111 1111011110 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, or, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or are repeated.
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