This is an analysis of the poem Molony’s Lament that begins with:
O TIM, did you hear of thim Saxons,
And read what the peepers report?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX XXXcc daXXXaXXaX XXXeXfXff XgXgaaaXXa hiXihXXbb hXXaXdXddX hXaXjeXXee jjhXXkakkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,10,9,10,9,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110110 11101001 110100100 11101011 1100100100 11010010 1110100110 110101011 11111111 101110101 01001001 1110110010 11001101 111010110 110010101 010010010 11001001 11 010110110 1101000100 11001011 11001100010 010101001 1110010010 10010001 1010010100 00100111111 01111001 110010111 11101101 101010010 01011001 1110100110 101001101 1100011010 010011101 01 01111001 110010010 11001101 1110010010 101101101 110010010 11001100 111010010 010101111 10111011 110011110 101011010 111010110 11001001 1010011010 11001011 111010110 10101101 11 101001010 110011010 11101101 1011010110 01011001 11101001 11101001 111101001 01001101 11 101011101 101101011 101001101 101001010 11001100 110111010 101011001 1010110110 11011111 011 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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