This is an analysis of the poem N. N. that begins with:
Calmly and gracefully thou movest along the path of life, tearless and
smileless, and scarce a heedless glance of indifferent attention ruffles...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX Xa XX bX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100110010101101 1001101010010001010 11 1101111110101101 1111 111111111011011011 11001101111010 110111100001110 100 100100100101011001 011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, thou, no are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of N. N.;
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