This is an analysis of the poem On Reading William Watson's Sonnet Entitled The Purple East that begins with:

Restless the Northern Bear amid his snows
Crouched by the Neva; menacing is France, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001010101 1101010001 1101100101 10110100001 0101111101 1111010110 1101100101 11010001001 0111010001 11110111001 0101110011 1111010111 1111111101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, her are repeated.

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