This is an analysis of the poem Lament that begins with:
The sting of bees took away my father
who walked in a swarming shroud of wings...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abA abA abA aba abAXabAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101110 110010101 1101001010 101001010 11010101 0101101110 1001101010 110100101 1101001010 010111110 10010101 10101101110 1100101010 110110101 1101001010 11101111010 111100101 0101101110 1101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word weather at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Lament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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