This is an analysis of the poem Seraphita that begins with:
Come not before me now, O visionary face!
Me tempest-tost, and borne along life's passionate sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba cdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110111110101 1101110111001 101111011100 111111010101 101100010101 010101001100 110101110101 000100010101 110101010101 1111110110111 111101001101 111111010101 110111111101 010111000111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
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- summary of Seraphita;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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