A Lady Forsaken Complayneth by Sir Edward Dyer: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Lady Forsaken Complayneth that begins with:

If pleasures be in painfulness, in pleasures doth my body rest,
If joyes accord with carefulness, a joyful hart is in my brest:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXbbccXXddeebX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0100010001011101 010010100001010011 0101010001001110 01001010011010101 1110101111111011 1111010101010110 1111111110110101 1101010111010110 1101010111111101 1101111101110111 1111111011110110 011111011110101 11011111101111 1101101111111011 1111110101101111 111111111010111 111111111111011 1110111111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 241
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; if, in, can, yet, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.

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