On Accidentally Meeting A Lady Now No More by William Lisle Bowles: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem On Accidentally Meeting A Lady Now No More that begins with:

When last we parted, thou wert young and fair--
How beautiful let fond remembrance say!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011111 1100110101 0111111101 1100101101 1101010101 1101111111 11010010101 11111111011 11010111001 1101111111 1101011101 1101110101 1111111101 1011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, and are repeated.

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