This is an analysis of the poem Expectation that begins with:
Too bright the glance your wishes sent
Into the future's day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 000101 110111110 1011 110001001 011111 110001110 1111 11000111 101101 01010101 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 Expectation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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