This is an analysis of the poem I Will Smile No More that begins with:
No, I will smile no more. If but for pride
And the high record of these days of pain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbaba cdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110111 1010101101 10101101000 1101111101 0100110101 1011110111 0011111101 1101111001 11011111010 1011011111 01110110110 1111010101 0011110111 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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