This is an analysis of the poem The Dirge that begins with:
Out of the pregnant darkness, where from fire
To glimmering fire the watchword leaps,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaX bbbbcccc bdbbd cbcbcece fgffg dbdbXhah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,5,8,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101010 0100100111 01110111010 11110 11110101001 111101 111101 110111 110011 01001001 1100101 111110101 0010101 010010010111 0101001001 00101010001 0111 11001000101 101111 110101 010101 010101 010101 111111 110111111 0101001 1111110101 010011101 11010011101 0101 0111110101 010101 010111 0010101 110101 1001010 010101 010101010 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Dirge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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