This is an analysis of the poem Marriage Bells that begins with:

Music and silver chimes and sunlit air,
Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1011011111 1000101001010 1101010101 11010001010 0101111111 0101011001 0101110101 1011010101 1101110111 1001010111 1001001101 1101010101 0110010001 1001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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 Marriage Bells;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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