This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xx. He Compares His Humble Fortune With The Distress Of Others that begins with:
Why droops this heart with fancied woes forlorn?
Why sinks my soul beneath this wintry sky?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb acac dede cfcf cbcb fafX fefe fafa gggg hbhb caca cici cece cbcb cfcf afaf jfjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101001111 1111010101 1101010101 11011100101 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1101110101 1011110101 1110010101 1101010111 0111010101 01110110101 10110101001 1101010101 11001010101 1111110101 1101011101 1101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1011010111 1011010101 1101010001 1111010010 1011000111 1101110101 0101010101 1111000101 11110001101 11010100101 1101010101 1111010101 10101010101 1011010101 10110100101 1111010101 1011010101 1011010111 1101110101 0111010111 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 110011101 10110100101 1101010101 1011010101 11001010111 1101111101 1101011101 110111001001 1111011111 1101001011 1111111101 1111010111 1111010001 10110100010 10110110001 11010101010 1111011101 1111111101 11001010101 11010010101 110011101001 1011011001 1101010101 1111010101 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; nor, he, to, here, their, of, they, our, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, what, nor, the, he, here, where are repeated.
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