This is an analysis of the poem Aura that begins with:
I sit in the black leather chair
meditating...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadcXe ffgdha cic cXfeahac agXX Xibh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,3,8,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 1010 10101110 001 10010011 100001010 101 110 011111 100101 1111 01100101 1110001011 1110111 1111 010 101010110 101010 110 10010101 100100 0111 0101 110101 10100 1110101 101110001 1010 0101 101010101 1110101 10 10100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, back are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word died is repeated.
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- summary of Aura;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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