This is an analysis of the poem Sadness that begins with:
The sun is ever full and bright,
The pale moon waneth night by night....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab aaXaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01110111 1100 11111101 01010101 11110101 11011111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sadness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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