This is an analysis of the poem Tear-Drop, The that begins with:
Wae is my heart, and the tear's in my e'e;
Lang lang Joy's been a stranger to me: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccdd eeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101011 111001001 01011011011 101111011011 1111011111 1111011111 1011111011 111101001011 0010110110 1111111101 11101011011 11110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; my, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.
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