This is an analysis of the poem Piano Practice that begins with:
The summer hums. The afternoon fatigues;
she breathed her crisp white dress distractedly...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXab XbbX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010101 1101111000 11000110110 0010100100 111011010 1011111110 110101110101 1100110101 011111111 0101011011 100101011 0101110100 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Piano Practice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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