This is an analysis of the poem The Passing Of Pan that begins with:

Laughter, velvet-lipped, runs ringing
All along the woodland ways,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXC adadeceC bfXfgcgCXbbbbeceC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110 1010111 10110010 10111001 1010101 11010101 1010100 1000101 10101010 1110111 10101010 1010101 10111111 0011011 101000011 1000101 00101010 1010101 100010010 1010101 11101010 0010101 10100010 1000101 10101110 1010011 101010010 1010111 11101011 1110101 11101011 1000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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 The Passing Of Pan;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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