This is an analysis of the poem Colophon that begins with:
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY
Lamp of living loveliness,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabaccddeeXbXX fgfggbaahhhfhf gbGbhhiibXiXiG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 10101000 1010001 1001111 1010101 1010101 1110001 1110001 10010101 0101100 1110111 1010101 0110101 11101110 10101000 1010001 1011101 0010001 0011101 1010101 101101 10110101 1100101 0111111 10101001 1010001 10101101 1010101 1010001 1010111 10100101 0010000 1111011 111111 111111 1110101 001101 10101011 01101000 1010101 1000110 0010001 0010000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; of, my, and are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Colophon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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