This is an analysis of the poem Absence that begins with:

There is strange music in the stirring wind,
When lowers the autumnal eve, and all alone... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbeebee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011000101 110001011101 0011110111 1101101101 1111101101 0011011100 1111010010001 0101110101 1001011111 1101110111 10101010101 1100110101 0101101101 1011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
  • 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.

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

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