This is an analysis of the poem Tears that begins with:
Tears! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbabaXXbXbXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 00101011 1011101010101 110110111100 1100100101 110111100101 110101111101 10110111011 1101010010011010 1 1111011011101 1001 11101110011011001 10101 101111111101101000 10 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 843
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tears, in, that, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tears is repeated).
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