This is an analysis of the poem The Wake that begins with:
Come, Anthea, let us two
Go to feast, as others do:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeeeeeeddffggcXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 1011101 1110111 1010111 1010101 1010001 1010111 10010100 1010001 1010100 1010011 1010101 1010101 0100100 1010001 1000101 1010001 1001101 1010111 1011101 1010110 0010100 1011101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 716
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 The Wake;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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