This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
THE world's heart is kindless and grey and unholy,
As the head of the wandering Jew, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcDXAEAXfXfcdcDXAEA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010111010 101001001 1110010010010 11010001 1001001011111 1110011010 1111001011010 010011110 01001111010 110100110 1011001001 1110110010 1110110010110 11011101 0010011011000 01101001 101111001001 1111010110 1110101101000 010011110 01001111010 110100110 1011001001 1110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1027
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, to are repeated.
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- summary of Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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