This is an analysis of the poem Song I: Though The World Be A-Waning that begins with:
Love is enough: though the World be a-waning
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010010 1011111010010 1010111110010 011110110100 10101111010110 1011011011110 1111110111110 011110011110 111110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not is repeated.
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More information about poems by William Morris
- Analysis of The Day Is Coming
- Analysis of Song V: Through The Trouble And Tangle
- Analysis of Song Iii: It Grew Up Without Heeding
