This is an analysis of the poem A Recollection that begins with:
Famously she descended, her red hair
Unbound and bronzed by sea-reflections, caught... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba Xbba cdcXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010011 0111110101 1001101101 1111010101 1111110100 10110101 01010100101 1101011101 11110001101 1001011111 1001000101 11000011100 1111110111 10001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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- summary of A Recollection;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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