This is an analysis of the poem Solemn Hour that begins with:
Whoever now weeps somewhere in the world,
weeps without reason in the world,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab ccb aabXaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111001 10110001 1101 0101111001 10110001 111 01011011001 1001101001 10011 0101111001 10110001 111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; weeps, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words weeps, laughs, wanders are repeated.
The author used the same word whoever at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world, night are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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