This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
Observe the cautious toadstools
still on the lawn today...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcbc XadaXeXe fdcdfaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 110101 1111010 11001 1110110 110001 1100010 11011 1111010 010101 1110110 110111 1101110 011101 0111110 1100101 101101 11110 111101 111110 110111 101111 111111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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- summary of Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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