This is an analysis of the poem Impromptu that begins with:
Tell me your race, your name,
O Lady limned as dead, yet as when living fair!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaXXXXX bXbcbbbddd bcbXbaacXeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1101011111101 1010101 1100101 0110101 1110100 1010100 1110111 1010101 111111111000 110101 1101011100001 1010111 1111111 11010101 1111101 1111101 0011101 1110101 110101010011 101111 110110010101 1111111 10011000 1111101 1011101 110101110101 1110101 101100 1111101 1010101 1010101 110101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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; or, and, love, you, with are repeated.
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- summary of Impromptu;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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