This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: I that begins with:
When is life other than a tragedy,
Whether it is played in tears from the first scene,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcbdbdee
- 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: 1011010100 10001010011 0101111100 1111111100 1101010111 1101010001 1101001101 1101110101 1001101101 1001010101 1111011001 1001101111 1111010111 10101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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