This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
Coldly the night-wind shivers on the hill-top,
Cold crawls the pale-faced fog from off the sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa aaXa baba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011101011 1101110101 11011101010 1111110101 111111010011 1111010101 11010101011 1111110111 11011101010 01001110101 101101101110 11111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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