This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
WE sail toward evening’s lonely star
That trembles in the tender blue;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD cacacdcD ececfdfD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 11000101 11010101 10110111 110000101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01110101 01110101 01011001 11010111 11011001 11110111 01010111 11011101 110111110 11110111 1110010010 11011111 11010101 11011111 100101001 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word caressed 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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