This is an analysis of the poem The Ex Official's Lament that begins with:
Alas alas! my power is gone;
I thought 'twould last for ever;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXefedbdbcgcgfhfhdidicecedadaXjcXkjkjijijdbdblglg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111001 1111110 11110111 1101010 11110111 0110010 01011011 0111010 10000010 1100011 01110101 1101011 01111101 0101010 11110001 0101010 11011101 0011010 11011111 1001110 11010101 0100010 11111101 1100010 11010101 1101011 11110111 0100011 11010111 10000010 11010101 1101110 11110101 1101010 11110111 0101010 11110111 11110100 11000101 1101100 11110111 1100110 11010101 01000110 11011111 0101110 01111101 1101110 01000101 1111110 100111101 01001010 10111111 0111010 111110101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1774
- Average number of words per stanza: 318
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and, as, them, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, should are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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