This is an analysis of the poem The Lore-Lei that begins with:
I know not whence it rises,
This thought so full of woe ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb bdcd XXXX efefXbbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 011101 10101010 111011 01011010 110101 01011100 0010101 1101010 010001 010010100 1110101 00101110 1011101 11010010 1100100 0101010 0010101 11101011 010101 1101110 0101101 10001010 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 Lore-Lei;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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