This is an analysis of the poem Threnody that begins with:

The south-wind brings
Life, sunshine, and desire,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbbcdd eaffffggddhhhggaXdggd iijjiicfbfaaXdiXihggccea ddaakkfXffffffaaiidd ififddddffkkffddffllffdd hcmmXnjjiikkddffffXeiXiifXmmdXffdXoohXdXXfddddiiffddiiffhhddkkhhpppp egagiihnii jffcciiXXddddkkkXiijjqqkXaarrXiii ffhhbbiihhffdddiiaaeXXfkkXbiijjlXeeeXdi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,21,24,20,24,68,10,33,40,41,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 1111010 111001111 1101010 1100111110 010111001 110100111 01011101 111101 11110111 111101 110101 100100101 01011001 0100111 11111101 01011001 01100111 11010001 01000101 11010011 11111011 110111011 010101110 111111010 1110101 1011110111 111111011 10111101 1101110111 110111 11011101 11011101 11110001 1101100101 11011111 11001 11110100 011101 110111 100101 1001110 11011101 110101 110111 10010001 11010111 01010101 11010101 11011101 11010111 1011101 110010 100100101 010101001 11000101 01010101 11011101 01111100 110011101 010111010 01011101 01011101 01010101 110100001 11010101 01000111 01010101 01010101 01010100 10101111 11010101 11010101 0010111 01110001 10100111 0111101 01011101 01110111 11110101 1111101 01011101 01010101 01010101 001101111 0100111001 11010111 01011101 01010101 110010101 1101101 0011001 1001101 10111111 01010101 01000111 1011101 11101 10111101 111111001 01110101 111101110 111110100 01010101 111101111 110100101 00110011 01011101 110000111 11010101 11010101 10110111 11011011 1100101001 11111001 11001000 11010001 11111101 11000100 11000101 11010101 11011101 101101000 11010001 11010011 11110111 110100110 11010111 11111111 11010111 100101010 10101001 110111111 110010101 011101010 11011101 101101011 011111010 01110101 01111001 01001101 11010111 10111001 11000101 10110001 010101101 11111111 11010101 0111001 11110101 11001101 11110101 11010101 10110101 11011101 11011101 1110101 10010111 00111100 01011101 1010101 10100110 00101110 00111010 11101010 110101 11110101 0111 1101100101 111101 01010111 11110101 11010100 11010101 1101000101 01110101 10011101 01111001 11011111 0111101 11010001 01011101 111110101 11010110 1010010101 01010101 00011101 11010110 01010111 11010100 01111110 110101110 11010101 01110101 111100101 11111001 11110101 010010101 101101010 111010000 11110101 11010001 11001101 11010001 010001010 11111101 11010101 11010101 11011001 10011011 1010101 1001101 10101010 10111110 11110101 010100011 11011101 11010101 11111101 0101011 11110111 01001101 11110101 110111 10111101 11010101 101010101 11011001 10010100 11110110 011100101 1010111 01100101 111011100 10101010 11010101 11100100 1111101 111101001 101100001 101110 1011101 1011101 1011101 1101010100 11011101 01011101 01011100 11010101 1001001 11010001 01000101 10010111 10101001 1010111 10101010 1010101 10101010 110111 11110101 11111111 1010101 01010101 1010101 1011101 1010100 1110100 1111101 1101101 01010111 1001110001 1010011 1110111 11010101 10011101 110100101 11010101 1011101 11010001 101001010 10111010 1010011 11010101 11011101 1010100 100101010 100101010 1110101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 983
  • Average number of words per stanza: 175
  • Amount of lines: 289
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, him, thy, his, each, not, no, some, to, this, past, which are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, with, each, of, there's, and, o, no, some, this, would, or are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

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