This is an analysis of the poem Awakening that begins with:
Grave mouths of lions
Sinuous smiling of young crocodiles...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbXbcXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010 101001101 010101001010 101 1101001 00101 1010 01010010010 010011010010 001000101 1101 111010010 110100 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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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