This is an analysis of the poem Old Tunes that begins with:
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope,rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbbccccccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10100110000 100101111 1011011111 10111011 1101101101 1101101001 100100101 11010101 01101101 110111001 1100110001 101110101 111011111 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Old Tunes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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