This is an analysis of the poem Charon. that begins with:

Who goes across those waters
On which the Moon ne'er shone,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdcceXefgbgdXafghdhdeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 110111 00100111 100111 10111000 011101 0111110 010101 1101010 0011101 00101010 1010111 0101110 100101 10111010 010100 10100110 111101 10111010 010100 1101110 010101 0101110 110111 1111010 111101 1101110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 775
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Charon.;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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