This is an analysis of the poem While The Fates Sleep that begins with:

Come, let us to the sunways of the west,
Hasten, while crystal dews the rose-cups fill,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdec fgfghbbh deddiggi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110010001 1011010111 1111010111 10100111 1001110101 1111100101 1101001100 101101 0101000101 0011010101 0101011101 100111 0101110111 1100010101 1111010111 011101 1111110001 1011111100 1111111011 101100 1111010101 01010101001 1111110101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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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  • summary of While The Fates Sleep;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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