This is an analysis of the poem The Comet that begins with:
SPECTRAL, mysterious, flame-like thing
Cleaving the western night,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXb cacca dedde feffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100111 100101 100100101 101101100 110101 111100111 110101 111100101 1111111001 100111 110101101 110101 101100111 1011011001 101101 1001011010 101111 1111001010 101101010 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Comet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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