This is an analysis of the poem A Lover's Complaint that begins with:
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaacc dcdccee Xfcffgg bbbbbhX Xbhbbii ghghhaa cbcbbXj fkfkXii lglgggg hbhbbee bmbmmbb bibiibb fbXbbcX ckckkhh nlnlloo lilpXibb hihiinn qpqppaa cbcbbll hbhbbnn bhbhhmm bbbbXaa hjhllcc brbXrhX XqgqXhh jbjbbXg lblbbff cbcbblj lblbbjj kXkhhXj bbbbbcc hmhmml
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011011100 01010001001 1100010101010 1111010111 1110010111 1001010101 1001010111 0101010101 1101010001 1001111101 010010111 1111011110 11111101011 1101110011 1011010001 1101010100 10001010001 1101110001 1101011001 1101010101 0100111111 0101011101 11010000101 1101011111 00101011101 1111101101 01001111111 01111000100 0111110101 0100010101 111000100101 100111101 1001001101 1101011101 1101001100 0101000111 0101010101 1111100101 0111010111 1100010101 1111111101 1111111111 01010111001 1101111101 11001010111 1001110001 1111010101 0101111000 100110100100 1101100101 1101110101 1111110001 110110111 1111111110 0101010111 1001110110 01001110101 11010010101 0101011111 0101001111 01001010101 11001101001 0101110001 111101011 1101011101 11010100101 0100010001 0101110101 11010010001 1100010001 1011101101 010001001010 1011110111 11110101110 11111001010 1011011101 1011101101 11011101010 0101010111 01110101010 1101110101 1101011101 1100111001 1111110101 1101010101 11001010001 0101110101 1101010101 1111100101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 0101011001 1101011101 1111010101 1101011111 11010100101 0101011101 1100010101 1101111111 1011111101 1111110001 1111010110 0101001011 010010000101 1111110111 1101000101 1010010101 11111111 110 1101010101 1001110101 11010101101 1101010101 011001111 0100010100 0100011001 1101110111 11010111001 1101101111 1101000101 1101001101 1101011101 1001010111 0101010101 11010111001 1011000100 11000100101 01011101010 0101011001 0100101001110 010111010110 1100111111 1111111101 1010100101 0111100111 11101010101 0101010111 0111010101 110001100010 10110111110 1101110101 1001010001 1101100101 1111110101 1001011101 1101000110 01011111110 1011111100 010111001010 1011010101 01010111010 010011101010 0111010101 00110101001 1111011100 0101110110 1101010110 0101110001 1011011011 1111010101 1101011111 1101010011 1111001101 0010011110 1101110110 1101010101 0101011101 1101111011 1101111110 11010001010 1101010101 11010100010 11010100100 1100111011 11000101011 11011111110 111101111 101100111010 1010110101 1011011101 1101110110 1101011101 1110010111 1100011001 1101010110 1101001111 1111111101 1111010101 1110110101 1001011111 1111111111 11010100101 11001100101 1111001111 11010011111 1101000100 11110101011 011110111 100111101111 0111010101 01011010001 0101011100 0101110100 1101110011 010101000100 110101001001 1101010001 0010001101 1111010101 1111011100 1101110011 100010010001 01110001101 11110100101 010110010101 01010111001 01110011111 1111000101 0100101010010 1011111101 11011111110 10011100110 1101111000 1111011001 11010111001 1111010101 11110001101 1001110101 1111001101 1101101101 101100011 1001111001 11010001001 1101010101 1101010101 11111100101 1111010101 0101000101 1111111101 01111100111 1001101101 10101010110 11011001100 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0100111001 0101000101 111101101 0101110101 10010110100 1101110001 1101111111 0101010101 1101110011 1111110101 1110011101101 1111001101 1101010111 11110010101 110011001 01011100110 1111010101 1101011111 0111011101 1111111111 1110011111 0101011101 1101010011 01010011101 11111111 11 11000100101 0100110111 1111111101 1001010111 1100110101 01010011111 10110001101 1101011101 1101110111 11010011010 1111010111 1101010001 0101010101 1101000111 11010101010 11110111100 1101010111 00110111001 1001010001 1101010011 111110111 1101110011 11001111001 1101011101 10101110001 11110100110 1111011101 0101110101 11011101001 0101110101 11010001010 0101011101 01010101010 11010011111 01010101100 0111010111 1011111101 1101100101 1101001101 1011001111 1100011111 0101111101 1111011100 1111111100 1100010001 0101011110 11100010101 11010001010 111101101100 1111111101 1111011101 1101010001 11110100111 1111000101 1111010101 1111110101 1101010101 110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 47
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 331
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; her, and, often, i, to, what, their, in, my, that, much, your, of, him, at, he, his, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, of, or, with, playing, what, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, ' are repeated).
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- summary of A Lover's Complaint;
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