This is an analysis of the poem Calm that begins with:
Have patience, O my sorrow, and be still.
You asked for night: it falls: it is here....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcXbXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101110101 111101001 01001011001 0111010101 10110101 10101010101 10010101001 0100101101 111111010 100100011101 1011010001001 1011110101 11101110001 1011100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Calm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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