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

Mine are the night and morning,
The pits of air, the gull of space,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd Xaea dfXf dddb dfdf dfXf dgdg fhdh dfdf bfhf ifcf cece adgd diXi jede Xiei hjfj dfef Xcbc abidXcgcg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1101110 01010101 01010101 0010001 11001010 11100101 111010010 010111 110110110 111111 111010101 110101 110110010 100010100 011101010 111101 11001010 110101 11010001 010101 11010100 0111001 01000101 010001 11010111 110111 1101111 110101 11011100 1101110 10111101 1111110 11101010 111101 110111010 010111 11011100 110101 01110100 011101 1101110 111101 11011011 010001 11110101 0101111001 010111101 110111 11010110 110111 11001101 111101 11001110 110101 10110101 110101 1010111 1100111 01001110 111001 11110110 110111 11011101 1100111 1001010 111101 110010101 1100101 1101110 1110101 110101001 011101 11010111 110101 11010100 11111111 11111111 110111 01010111 01011101 11011101 11010011 10111101 110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, in, and, of, my, one are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, no, and, they, will, too are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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