This is an analysis of the poem Paderewski that begins with:

The stars that sang in Time’s awakening,
Send each to each upon their golden round... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111010100 1101011101 0100010101 0101110101 1001010001 1101110101 1011000011 11001010101 101000101 01001010101 01010011111 11010101001 1110010101 0100111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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