This is an analysis of the poem Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Here that begins with:
FORLORN, my Love, no comfort near,
Far, far from thee, I wander here;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cccb cccbC dddbC XdddbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 11011101 11010101 1111101 101111111 11111 1101111 1101011 01110101 10110111 11011111 1011011 1111 11010101 01010101 11111101 1111011 1111 11010101 11111111 11010101 1111011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; far, near, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word far is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words love, c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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