This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
HOPING for nothing, to walk through the streets,
This is a better fate than men believe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabC XXXb XddeeXC ffccaXabC X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,9,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001101 0001011101 0111010101 01010111 10110011 01011101 01010101 0001010111 11011111010 01010101110 00110011010 010011 11110111 10100110101 01010111 11010001 10111111 1011011111 0111101101 0111010101 00110011 1111100111 0100010101 01010111 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, of are repeated.
The author used the same word hoping at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word are 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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