This is an analysis of the poem Desire that begins with:
For giving me desire,
An eager thirst, a burning ardent fire,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbdedXff ggaXhhaededgg ggggggggggggg XgggdefeXeii jjffddfjgjgaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,12,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 11010101010 010101 0101000111 110101001 10110111 11010101 01010100100 11010101 1001000101 01011101000 01111000 11010111 111101 1101111101 110100 1101011001 11110001 11111111 110100 1111110101 11010101 1100111001 1111110001 11000101 11110101 110101 01010101001 0101010 010101110010 0011101001 010111001 0111010 0111111101 11011101 11010101101 1101111101 111101001 110111001 111100 1101010101 1111010 110101010010 11011101 110101 1101110110 01010101 0100010100 1101011011 11011101 01010001 010101 010001011 100101 1111011111 11010101 011101101 110111 1101010011 1101111 0101010101 11001010111 111100010 110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, they, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, that, the, ye, in are repeated.
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- summary of Desire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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