This is an analysis of the poem To Fall that begins with:
Sad-Hearted spirit of the solitudes,
Who comest through the ruin-wedded woods!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccddaaeeXXdffccaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010001000 1101010101 11001110001 0101010001 0111010001 1101000101 11010011001 10001110001 11011101010 01011101010 0101010011 1111001001 01010101100 1001010100 1111011101 1101010111 1101010101 0111110111 0101010111 10010101010 011111010010 0101011111 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 966
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, a are repeated.
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