This is an analysis of the poem Lament (O How All Things Are Far Removed) that begins with:
O how all things are far removed
and long have passed away....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcde fecc fXbefdXaee X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,10,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 111101 110101 111101 011101 110100 1101000101 111101001001 1101101101 1011 110101101 1101011000 1101 110101 1101 11011111 1101 01 11101101 1011100010 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines house is repeated).
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