This is an analysis of the poem Soul's Call that begins with:

When you wake from troubled slumbers
With a dream-bewildered brain,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cXdd dX baba ccbb bb bebe ccffXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,4,2,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 0010101 11111110 10010101 10111010 11101110 10111011 1111101 0111101 1010100 10101010 1000111 11111010 1010101 10101110 00101010 1110101 1111101 1011010 1110111 101001010 1011111 11101110 1010001 10101010 11111010 10001101 1110101 1111111 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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 Soul's Call;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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