This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
The weight of the world
is love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcacc deB fggedhicXccdeXB dedbdgB dbXgBiggjBkfaa e bcdcahh gkhgkjXhgfXhdaAAcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,15,7,14,1,7,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001 01 10010 0101 10010 010010 01 01110 01 1101 01 010 010 01 10 0100 001010 100 11 010 11001 100100 101001 01 111001 100 1111 00101 11 11001 01 11 011 11 011 01 0111 01010 101 0101 01 10010 1001 1001 001 010110 11 1101 11 010 0101 010100 0011 0110 1010 0010 011 0010 001 0110 0100 1011 10001 11 11 110 11110 11110 001 0010 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 13 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cannot, i, wanted are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, cannot, in, i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 wanted is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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