This is an analysis of the poem Mourning that begins with:
The dark eagles, sleep and death,
Rustle all night around my head: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaXXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 10110111 0101101 010101010 00100101001 010011010 10111 1001 1001101 1001001010 1001 010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 Mourning;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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