This is an analysis of the poem Arise that begins with:
Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day,
While the golden, precious hours flit away? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbbb ccdd bbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 10101010101 11101010101 10101010001 10101010101 11111010111 01101110101 11101010101 11111110101 11111010111 10111010111 10101010111 10111010111 11010110111 01111100101 11101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Arise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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