This is an analysis of the poem Love's Suicide that begins with:
ALAS for me for that my love is dead !
Buried deep down, and may not rise again ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dded Xaca fbeb agXg abdb Xefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111101 1011111101 1101010101 100111 1111110101 1111110111 1111111111 111101 1101011111 1011111111 1101110001 111111 11111100001 1101011111 10011110111 110101 1011111111 11011100100 11011110100 110101 11110011101 1101000101 1011110111 110101 11000010111 1101010111 101011100101 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, of, some, and are repeated.
The author used the same word nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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