This is an analysis of the poem Serenade that begins with:
So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
I feel it more than half a crime,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeedddffddggaahhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 11011101 11011111 01010101 11110101 110001001 1010101010 100101010 10010001 10010101 01010111 11010101 01010101 11111111 11000111 11000111 10011101 11111111 11010111 11011111 11010001 11110111 01110101 11111101 010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 944
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Serenade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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