This is an analysis of the poem A Wasted Illness that begins with:
Through vaults of pain,
Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXXc dede fXfX ghgh ijij jcjcXafaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 10011010100 1111010111 11001 1100 11111100101 0101011101 1111 10101 001101101001 0101110101 1101 1111 10101111010010 1111110111 11000 1111 0101001111 11000010111 1101 1111 1101010101 1111010101 1111 1101 1100110111 1101111101 1001 11101 0101110101 11110101001 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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