This is an analysis of the poem Peasant's Song that begins with:

O, thou, who loved me once,
From thy Pagoda glance ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccbdddbeeebccXbeeebfffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 010101 110101 111101 111111 110101 111101 010101 011101 111101 111101 110111 111111 111101 001101 111111 100111 110101 011000 011111 100101 100101 110111 111101 1111010 1111010 1111010 011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 787
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 Peasant's Song;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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