This is an analysis of the poem To Whom? that begins with:
Awake upon a couch of pain,
I see a star betwixt the trees;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebebaba fgfghghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010101 011100101 11110101 11011101 11010001 11010001 110011001 11111101 10111111 1110101011 111010101 010111001 110100101 111101001 11010011 110101010 11010101 101100010 11110011 01011101 11011101 11110001 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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