This is an analysis of the poem On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) that begins with:
Bid adieu, my sad heart, bid adieu to thy peace!
Thy pleasure is past, and thy sorrows increase;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeffXddccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101111101011 11001111001 101101011101 101101011011 101011101001 111101101001 01001001011 11111011001 0110000011010 1110010011110 101001111011 101011001001 01001001011 01101101001 11001101001 111001111001 11011011001 01011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thy, of are repeated.
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