This is an analysis of the poem The Immortal Part that begins with:

When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccee ffgg ddhh ccdd cccc iijj ccXb ggkkXbbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 11111101 11110111 100010101 101010101 01010111 01011101 1010101 101111111 11110101 01110101 1010101 100111010 110011010 001010101 01011101 101111111 1010111 11010101 1111111 1000101001 1111101 11100101 0100100 1100101 1011111 10010101 11010111 10110101 10110111 1010101 1111101 10010101 1111111 010101010 1110111 1111110 01111101 11111111 11010101 010100101 01011101 11010101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, be, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Immortal Part;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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