This is an analysis of the poem In Solitude that begins with:

He is not desolate whose ship is sailing
Over the mystery of an unknown sea,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac dede dbdbXcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110011010 10010001011 11110100010 0101011100 10010001010 0111110001 01110101010 1001011101 0101100010 1111010001 01110101010 11110011101 10010001010 110110101 110011101110 1100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of In Solitude;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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