This is an analysis of the poem The Burden Of The Suns that begins with:
Wherefore thy burden and thy toil, O Sun?
Borne up the steep and hollow heavens afar...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXX acdacd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011011111 11011101001 1101111101 101101001001 1101001101 10010010111 1111010100 110101010 101111101 0101110101 1001010101 1101111111 1011110101 100010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; thy, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Burden Of The Suns;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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