This is an analysis of the poem Seeking that begins with:

Bright eyes, sweet lips, with sudden fevers fill
My strong blood, running wildly, as it must;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba acacac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111010101 1111110101 0111010101 111000000 1101010101 1111010101 1111111101 1101111011 1111110101 1111110001 1001110101 1111010101 1111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, true, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word true is repeated.

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  • summary of Seeking;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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