This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:

Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers,
Lull'd by the faint breezes sighing through her hair; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede XeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101001010 11011010101 111110101010 1011110101 100110100010 0110111111001 110101101010 11110010011 1101000101110 101011101011 10010110101010 0011010010101 111110111010 11010001001 101101100110 10011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of Song;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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