This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
I defended myself in vain; now I'm slinking away
In the white moon's shade, tall spear shattered....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbccdeaXcdfgaegcfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101101001 001111110 111101110011 11011001110 111101011001 100100010 10111110101111 1011110011 1011111101 011011111101 1101001011101 10010101011 10001011111 1101010101111 1100101001 010111001 11101011 10111010 1011010 100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 891
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
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- summary of Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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