This is an analysis of the poem Lachrymæ Musarum that begins with:
Low, like another's, lies the laurelled head:
The life that seemed a perfect song is o'er:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabccbaaba deXdefghghg XXiiihihddih gjjgjgjggj hkhkjgXgkffk XhhhcagagbggbbgcaafcXfaacffc llhXhccjjakkakgkXbbmbXmama ccjcjbkbkdXdhhdkkgigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,12,10,12,28,26,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101001 01110011010 1001110011 1111110101 1111111101 1101111111 100100111001 1111110101 010111 1101110101 0100010101 1001010111 1111010101 0101010100 01001010101 1001000101 1111111101 11110111110 1101010101 1101010101 100100101001 1011010 111001 100111100 10010011001 11110101001 1001111101 1011011101 1101010101 10011000101 110101 010101 1101011101 0101010101 11010101001 0101010001 10010011111 1101000011 1101010101 1111010001 0100000011 010101001001 11010011101 0101010101 1101010111 1101001 01010100001 110001 11100000111 0111010101 01001100100 1001000101 1110111101 10010110001 1111000101 1101110101 1110101110 1101010101 1000111 1111011011 11010100001 0101010101 1000111 001001011101 01010100101 01010100111 0101010001 1110011101 0100010001 1101111101 1001000111 0101110101 10011110111 1101011111 110100100100 1101010101 11010001110 1111100001 1101110101 1010010101 1111010101 1011011101 1101110111 0111010111 111101 1001010101 101101 111101 1101111101 100101 0100011101 1100011101 101101 111101 01001001101 100100101001 01010010101 0111010101 11011100101 1001001001 100100 1110110111 1101011101 0100111101 1111010001 1100100 1101011111 11011100111 1101010111 0111111111 0101011111 010101 0101010101 10001110101 110101 10110010101 11010010011 010111111 010101 1001010001 1101001111 1101111101 10011100101 0101000101 11010100101 1001000101 1101111101 1111010101 0111110101 1011110001 0100011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, in, and, no, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words land, in, there, i, the are repeated.
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- summary of Lachrymæ Musarum;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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