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

My skies were blue, and my sun was bright,
And, with fingers tender and strong and light,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa ffdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111111 1010101111 1110101101 100100101 1111111 110110111 110100101 011100101 101011101 101101111 1101100101 1110101111 10111101010 11111001010 011101101 1100101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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  • summary of Unstrung;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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