This is an analysis of the poem Tears that begins with:
Silence o'erwhelms the melody of Night,
Then slowly drips on to the woods that sigh...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabXXbccddeeeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100010001 1101100111 1111010100 0101011001 0101010101 01010010100 0111110110 1101011101 1011011111 10111010101 1111010101 1111110111 1111110101 0101010111 1101010101 1001011111 00110100011 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 790
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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