This is an analysis of the poem Song. To A Russian Air that begins with:
WAS it for this I dearly loved thee?....
But since at length I know thy heart,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cacacdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011011 11111111 11111011 110101011 111111010 11111100 1101100010 11111101 111101010 11110101 111101010 010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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