This is an analysis of the poem Chant To Sirius that begins with:
What nights retard thee, O Sirius !
Thy light is as a spear,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXabcX abXdebXecaXeadXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 110101 1110000 1010011001 100010001 11110101 1101100 110110100101 110001101 110111 100011110 1111011 110110 10101011 10110101110 1101 0110101001 00101000 11100101 11111110001 11001 1011100 110001001 0101001 11111010 10101001 10101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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