This is an analysis of the poem Natural Music that begins with:

The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers,
(Winter has given them gold for silver...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXbaXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110010011001010 1011001110 011101101110111 0100101110 110101010101001 0100010110 001001100100101010 11010101 110111111011001 1010110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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 is repeated.

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  • summary of Natural Music;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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