This is an analysis of the poem Elysium that begins with:
Past the despairing wail--
And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbddbddbefef gghddXhiiiihhddjbbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 10110001001 1100101 011111010 111111110 100101 110110101 01011101 010101 111011010010 010111011010 11011101001 110111010 11010101 010101010 110101111001 101010001101 101001111011 01111101 101001011101 101101001001 011010010 1111100101 1101010101 0101011101 0101001101 10111100101 0101110001 1011001111 10110101001 110100010101 1011000101 1111110101 1011001101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 746
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Elysium;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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