This is an analysis of the poem La Nue that begins with:
Oft when sweet music undulated round,
Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeXe fgcg aXaa ghgh XXcf aiai dada gggg jgjX chcX Xcfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1011100011 1100010101 1111010101 10010111011 11010010101 0111010111 1101100101 0101100111 11010101001 01000101010 110100111001 10010100010 1111010101 11111100010 1111010101 1001000101 1001010110 1001010101 10001011111 1001110101 1001110111 11011100111 101010001 011101111010 011101100100 1100110011 0100010010010 1101100001 01010110111 11110100001 010100100100 1101010101 0101010101 1101010110 1101010101 1101101111 1001110111 1101010001 10010100100 1101000101 1111010100 1101010011 0101000101 1101000101 10110101001 00110110001 10110100 1111100101 110100100010 1011110101 11001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Nue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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