This is an analysis of the poem Pain that begins with:
She heard the children playing in the sun,
And through her window saw the white-stemmed trees ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcdbcdeffeXffXXdaXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 1101010111 1101010001 1001011111 1101110011 0100011100 1101111101 1011010010 11011111010 1111111111 0110000111 1001110010010 10010010001 1100011001 10100001100 1101011111 1111110101 1011110100 0101110101 01010100011 0111001101 100101010 111101100 0101111011 0101010111 1001110100 11011111101 0101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1199
- Average number of words per stanza: 216
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Pain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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