This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue that begins with:

Patience, little Heart.
One day a heavy, June-hot woman ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abc bcXaaaXddA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 110101110 010110101 1111001110 1101011010111 10011111010 1011011 0100110100101111 1001011011111 10111111101000 0110101111001 10100011101000111101 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; night, you are repeated.

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