This is an analysis of the poem Decay that begins with:
A wind is blowing! The green lights
Sing extinguished - large and satiated...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X b X b b X c c a a a c X cXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 101011100 0110011 111101011 0010101001 11111111 0101001000 101101001010 011011 100101 10101100010 1000100 1101010 10001001 10100101 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 33
- Average number of words per stanza: 6
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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 Decay;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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