This is an analysis of the poem Tess's Lament that begins with:
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I would that folk forgot me quite, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbcdddc X eeefbbba X cccghhXg X ddddafad a iiicjjjc a bbbXbbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110111 1011 11111101 111101 10010111 01110111 11010111 111111 1 11011111 1111 11111111 111100 11010101 11100111 11110111 110101 1 11111111 1111 010110111 110101 111111010 111101110 110101110 110111 1 10111001 1001 11110101 111111 10010111 11101100 11111111 110101 1 11111111 1111 1010010111 110101 11011111 10111111 111111001 111111 1 01110100 1100 11011111 11111 111100001 110010011 11001101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, to, and, me, who, it, we, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines quite, long, gone, all, wed, it are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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