This is an analysis of the poem Tho' Lack Of Laurels that begins with:
Tho' lack of laurels and of wreaths not one
Prove you our lives abortive, shall we yet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010111 1111010111 1111011111 0101010101 1001010001 1111110100 0101110111 10001111101 1101000111 1101010101 0111110001 111101001001 0111110101 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; our is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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