This is an analysis of the poem He Who Weeps For Beauty Gone that begins with:

He who weeps for beauty gone
Hangs about his neck a stone. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Aa bb cc dd eeXAa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 1010101 1111011 1010111 11111010 10011010 1111101 1110101 1110011 1011100 1111101 10101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 60
  • Average number of words per stanza: 12
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; for is repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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