This is an analysis of the poem Silent Tears that begins with:

What bitter sorrow courses down
Yon mourner’s faded cheek?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdcddXdbcdc bedeXccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 110101 11010101 011101 11011001 010100 11111100 111101 10011001 110101 11011101 011101 10100101 010101 01110111 010101 01110101 110111 11110101 110101 11010111 110101 01011101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

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

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