This is an analysis of the poem The Girl's Lamentation that begins with:
With grief and mourning I sit to spin;
My Love passed by, and he didn't come in;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc dXbb eeff gghh ccee ccig ccii bbhh jjbb aabb aaaa jjjj aaaa iidd kkcc jjbbXeehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011101101 1111111010 110111111 110111101 100100101 111111101 110110101 110110101 111101101 1111101010 110110101 1111110101 1011101110 11011110111 110110111 01110111101 011100101 0100101101 111101111 011101101 1010111100 1011110111 010101101 111110111 110110111 110101111 111111111 1011101101 111101101 110101001 110011011 0100101101 110101011 111111101 010111101 110111111 0100101111 011011101 110011111 010110101 010100101 1010110101 010110101 1011101111 010100101 1101010101 010100111 1010110101 1011101111 11011111 0011111101 1010110101 1101100101 1110110111 110110111 0111100101 111100111 1010110110 111100111 1010110111 0010111101 111100101 1111011101 11010111111 110111101 111100101 110100111 0111001101 111100101 1010111111 1010101111 11100101111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, my, i'd, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'd, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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