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

KAARE
What wakens the billows, while sleeps the wind?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabab cCCD Xeaea cCCD XfgfgXcCCD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1100101101 1100101 110011101 1101111 1 111111 111111 0010111010 1 1101100101 1100111 0111101111 1100111 1 111111 111111 0010111010 1 1101100111 0101101 1001110101 1111101 1 111111 111111 0010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, god are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines earl is repeated).

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