Within Their Silent, Perfect Glass by Adam Mickiewicz: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Within Their Silent, Perfect Glass that begins with:

Within their silent perfect glass
The mirror waters, vast and clear,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abab Acac AdXd bb ddXd beXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110011 01010111 01010101 11010101 01110011 01010101 11010101 11010111 01110011 01010101 11010101 01011111 11010101 11010111 01011100 11011111 11110111 01001101 11110001 11001101 10110101 11110111 10110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; mirror, as are repeated.

    The author used the same word within at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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