This is an analysis of the poem Messalina that begins with:
The gloss is fading from your hair,
The glamour from your brow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccb dedefffe ghgXiiihXgigiaaai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 010011 01110101 011101 101010101 11010101 01010101 111101 11011111 011011 11010001 111101 11110111 01010111 11110111 010101 11110101 1100111 11010111 111100 11010101 11010101 11010101 101001 11011101 110001 11110101 110111 11101101 11110101 10111111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, that are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Messalina;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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