This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Ones that begins with:

Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills,
And thro' the sunny flowers the bee-wings drone, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababa cdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 11010100111 1110100011 0101110101 10110101010 11110100111 10110101010 1111010101 1101111101 1101010001 0100011101 1111110111 1001011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Lost Ones;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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