This is an analysis of the poem Wake The Serpent Not that begins with:
Wake the serpent not—lest he
Should not know the way to go,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1110101 11111110 10110011 10111110 10111010 001001110 10111110 10101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; not is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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