This is an analysis of the poem Why So Pale And Wan, Fond Lover? that begins with:
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Prithee, why so pale?--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabB aCaXC dadaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111110 1111 01101110 10101 1111 11111110 1111 01101110 10101 1111 11110011 01010 00011011 10110 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; why, so are repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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