This is an analysis of the poem Tell Me that begins with:
Tell me, dear beauty of the dusk,
When purple ribbons bind the hill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddceXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 11010101 11110101 11110001 10111101 010111101 01011111 01110101 1100111 0011001010 1010111 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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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- summary of Tell Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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