This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written In Despondency that begins with:
Honour and gain may ne'er be mine,
'Tis not for these I live ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc ccddeeddffggffaaeeee gdXdggffddcXaahh ccafaXbb Xcffiiiicc jdjdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,20,16,8,10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10111101 111111 11110111 110011 01010101 11010101 01010101 01110111 11110101 11000101 11010101 1010001 1011111 01110101 11110101 01110100 1000101 01110101 01011101 01110101 11011111 1011100 110011101 10010101 111100 11010101 11111111 100101 01010100 1001001 100110101 11110101 1111101 11010101 11010101 110100101 11010101 1000111 11100111 1010011101 11010111 10101101 11111101 11010101 11011101 110011 01010101 110101 11011101 11010101 11111100 01110011 11010101 01010111 11110101 01010100 11110111 11110101 11011101 11011101 11101101 110100 11110101 010111 11010111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, where, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, where are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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