This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Lost that begins with:
WHERE are last year's snows,
Where the summer's rose,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff fff eee gXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 10101 10111 101001 01101 10001 10111 10101 11111 10111 10111 11111 0111011 011101 110101 010101 1011101 111111 011111 101101 111111 101110 110101 100111 110100 1111010 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Nothing Lost;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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