This is an analysis of the poem The Nympholept that begins with:
There was a boy -- not above childish fears --
With steps that faltered now and straining ears, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeeeebbeeddffggaaffaXhhXbaaddddcciieedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101101 0111011101 1010001101 1111110101 11110101001 1111001101 100011001001 1100010111 11001010101 1111010111 0101010111 0110110101 1100010101 1111010111 1111011101 0111011111 1111111101 1001010101 01001011101 0111110101 10010000101 1001010111 0111010001 10110101010 11101101010 1101010100 01110111001 1100111101 1111111101 0101011001 011010101000 1101011101 010010100 01110010110 1111111100 111101011 1101110101 1011110101 11110011101 1101110101 1101011101 1111010101 1011010111 1101010101 1011000101 10111100101 1001010111 1011010111 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2223
- Average number of words per stanza: 374
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, in are repeated.
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- summary of The Nympholept;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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