This is an analysis of the poem Lake that begins with:
Maidenly lake, fathomless lake,
Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ccXc dddd eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011001 11101101010 100000101111 11111010 11111101 0110010101 101011100 001110101 1111010101 0100101010 001111110 111101011 110100100010 1011010011 11101001010 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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- summary of Lake;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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