This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Despair that begins with:

The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa Bb cX de fg ff hg dg hg gb ci fj eb ck ae id ee ee fd hf lg id lk fk hg he jc Be lXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010001010001011 0101001001001 010101011 00010001010101 11011101011 110011100100 010110101010 010100111 110101110 10111011011 0101010001101 010001111011 101100110 10010001011011 001101111110 11000011011 11010110010 1011011011 110101111 0101011111 111111011111 110100110111101 10111100100 101000100101101 11011010010 11100111110 11111011001 1011101100100 1101111111011 001011001011 1100111010101 1100110110110 101001010110011 10101110111 101011011 101001100110 101100111 0111101 1010011101110 1011010101 01110010011100110 1001101011011 110011011001 1100110101101111 01001011111 1010100010010 111001111010 11001101101 11101010 11000011011 00010001001110 10110010110 01010011001 11111111 010101011 10100111011 11011011101101 00010001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, like, in, you, i, and, there, how, oh, my, still are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, there, how, oh, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words there, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word sank at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Song Of Despair;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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