This is an analysis of the poem Inscription that begins with:
When the last stir of bubbling melodies
Broke as my chants sank underneath the wave... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaacdceeXbXaaaafafaa XaaagXghciidhhiXihiaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100100 1111110101 0100110101 1110011101 110101000 1001011101 1111 110101100 01000010100100 111101 1101010101 101101 1101010010 111001011 101110 11001010101 11010001111 0101010111 101011101110 11110010011 11110101010 1111 0101010100 111111111101 10111001100 11101001001110 0100110100 10101 1111011101 1001110110 0101111101 1111110101 1111110111 111011 110011100101 1110111100 1111010001 1101000101 1101 0101010110 11010101101 1101101010 1110111101 1101100111 1111010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 924
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Inscription;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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