This is an analysis of the poem The Wanderer's Night-Song that begins with:
THOU who comest from on high,
Who all woes and sorrows stillest,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XX Xa baXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011 11111010 1111100 10111010 1010111 1111101 101 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; who is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
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