This is an analysis of the poem The Earth Laments For Day that begins with:
THERE’S music wafting on the air,
The evening winds are sighing... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaba cacada edXdXb fgXgXg hfhfda eXeici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101 0101110 01011101 0100010 01010101 1001010 01010101 0101110 11010101 0101010 11010111 0101010 11010101 1101010 11010101 0101010 11000101 0101100 01010101 0101110 01011101 0101010 11110111 0111110 11110101 1111010 01011101 0101010 11011101 0101110 11110101 1101011 01011101 0101010 01011101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; of is repeated.
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