This is an analysis of the poem Sedge Songs that begins with:
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In the west the sun departing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdc efdf dgdg X eXXa ehbh fgXg X aXaf ijijXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 00101010 1010101 10111110 0110111 11101110 1111101 10101011 1011001 001110100 1001101 10111110 1011101 1 11111010 1011100 10101010 1111101 10111110 1000111 101010010 1111101 11011010 1110111 11101010 1000101 1 10111 101100 100111 10111 00101 10101 11101 10101 11101 10101 10111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sedge Songs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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