This is an analysis of the poem No Pleasure Without Pain that begins with:
SWEET were the joys that both might like and last;
Strange were the state exempt from all distress; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeaa fafacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111111 1001010101 1001111111 101110101 0101011101 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110001 1101010101 1111010111 1001010101 11010110101 11001110101 11110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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