This is an analysis of the poem To George Sterling (His) that begins with:

His song shall waken the dull-sleeping throng
That dreams of sullen and of earth-bound things;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXbcXb
  • 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: 0111001101 1101010111 11010100101 1011000101 01010100001 11001000101 0110010101011 1101001001 1101000111 1001001001 1100110101 0101010111 10010101010 11001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of is repeated.

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