This is an analysis of the poem The Talisman that begins with:
Where the sea forever dances
Over lonely cliff and dune,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaXab bbbbcbcb dedefgfg chXhcbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1010111 11101010 0010101 10010010 1110100 11001010 1010100 10101110 10010001 001010010 1011101 10111110 1010101 10111010 1011100 10001110 10001011 10011010 1000101 10100011 0010101 001001111 0010101 100101010 1110101 00101100 1111111 11101010 0111101 00100010 11011000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word talisman at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Talisman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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