This is an analysis of the poem The Wolves that begins with:
When the church-village slumbers
And the last songs are sung,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaaaab cdXdeef agXgaaf hijiaac fbXbhhc Xjkjcck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 101111 1011010 0100101 1101010 1111010 1101110011 0101011 110101 1111010 110001 0111110 0101110 1100010111 1101010 110111 1111010 010101 0111010 0101010 1101010101 0101110 110101 0101011 100101 1101110 1111010 0101010001 0101110 110101 1001011 111101 10101011 0010011 0101010111 1011010 010101 1101010 111101 1011011 0101011 110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Wolves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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