This is an analysis of the poem Superstition that begins with:
In the waste places, in the dreadful night,
When the wood whispers like a wandering mind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0011000101 10110101001 1101110001 1101011101 1111001101 0111011101 1101110001 1100111101 1110111101 1001110111 1100010100 100011111 0111010111 0111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Superstition;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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