This is an analysis of the poem Wave-Won that begins with:
To-night I hunger so,
Beloved one, to know ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccdddd eeeffe ddgffg bbfhhf ffXeeX aaefXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 010101 0101110101 110101 110111 11110101110101 110101 110010 0101111101 010101 111111 01110101110101 010101 010111 0111010101 010111 010111 11000110111101 110111 111111 11110011111 1100101 110101 01010101110101 110101 110101 1111111111 110101 011111 11000101111101 010111 110001 1101010110 111101 110101 11010101010101 010111 110101 01000010101 1001001 11001110 01010011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, while are repeated.
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- summary of Wave-Won;
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