This is an analysis of the poem Song Iv that begins with:
I HEAR the waves to-night
Piteously calling, calling... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc cdcdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1001010 101 0011010 110101 111111111111 110111 10001010 101 11010101010 1111110 111101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Song Iv;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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