This is an analysis of the poem Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet Xxvii that begins with:

She wakes, she breathes, she rises from her bed,
That bed of death where she has lain so long;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdacacee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1111110001 1101111111 01011110011 1011111111 1001010001 1101101101 0101001101 1101010001 01011100111 1111001101 1101110101 1111111101 1101111101 10110100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 654
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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