This is an analysis of the poem Lux Perdita that begins with:

Thine were the weak, slight hands
That might have taken this strong soul, and bent... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbab accac daada
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 100111 1111001111 0101001101 1101000011 110101001011 100101 1111011101 11110011110 10110001101 1011110101 111101 0101010001 11011101001 11010011111 01001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; their, with are repeated.

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

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