This is an analysis of the poem Lament that begins with:
Sleep and death, the dusky eagles
Around this head swoop all night long;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXbXbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 01011111 1000101 11001010 01011001 01010010 101101 1001 1001010 10101011 101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Lament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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