This is an analysis of the poem The Eaglet Mourned that begins with:
Too hard Napoleon's fate! if, lone,
No being he had loved, no single one,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbX XcXXddd bXeeee ffgbbg cchhXee ccbiibXhhahha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110100101 1101111101 111110 1001011101 0101100101 111011 1101010110 1101011101 1101000101 111111110 1101010101 1111110011 111100111011001 11101010101 1001010100 110101 11010101001 1011100100 1111111 11101010101 0111010101 111001 1101011101 0101010101 111101 11101110001 1111110101 1110101001 11010101001 10101100100 1011011101 101101010101 11111010111 010111011001 010101 00111101001 10001110111 110101 1011010101 1111011101 1000101 1101111111 1101110101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, his, that, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word 't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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