This is an analysis of the poem Carlos that begins with:
Last night I knelt low at my lady’s feet.
One soft, caressing hand played with my hair, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc aeea effe fggf daad hiih djjd kllk fccfXadda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1101011011 1111110101 1111010001 1111110101 0101010111 1100101111 111101100101 0111111101 1101010100 1111110011 0111010110 1101010101 1101010101 1001111101 1101111101 1111110101 1100110001 1001110101 1101011111 1111110101 10001100101 1101100101 1111010101 1011010101 1101111101 1111111101 1111011011 101101010 1111010001 111111111 0101110101 1111110011 1101110111 1111010101 1100111111 1111011101 010011101001 1110011101 1101011111 1011111001 1110011111 1111011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, so, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Carlos;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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