This is an analysis of the poem Demeter And Persephone that begins with:
Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies
All night across the darkness, and at dawn... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccadefgbhibXfiXabfea aagejXXabfb baaklmacXmhlcjmngn bafXeabcXXXacXdXoaacfcbfkeabfedefbbj bblfXeeecgdlX cbfmXgXecbbabdjfeeahfi bfolXeaXbafcobbefmlblcbmfklaacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,11,18,36,13,22,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1101010111 1101100101 1111110111 1101010111 1111100111 0101110101 0111110101 11111101010 11110100101 1111010100 11110001001 1101011001 11110101001 110010111101 1110010001 011111100 1001111111 0101010101 1001010101 1110010101 100011110011 110100100001 1101111101 11110101010 1100010001 01001010001 10110100100 1101111110 0111010101 1100011101 1101010101 01111101110 1001011101 0101011101 01011011111 1101111101 11110101101 0110010111 1111110011 1101010101 0111010101 1111000111 0101000101 0101011101 1111111111 1101011101 1111110101 0111010101 11000101010 11110 11111 1101011101 10101010101 110010100111 1101010001 1101010001 0101111101 0101011111 1001111001110 11010111010 11111111110 1111010101 1101110101 101111101110 1101010101 11111111110 10001110100101 1100110101 1111111001 01010101011 0100110101 11010010100011 11110010101 1111111111 0101000101 0101010101 01001010101 1101000101 01001011101 11111111001 0101011101 1111010101 1000111110101 1111110101 1101111111 10010110101 1101000101 0101001101 0111011111 1101011111 1010010010 0111011111 011101110010 01000110010 1111111101 01011101010 1101010101 1011011101 010100 10111 11110101010 1111001101 1101011101 1101010100 01110111110 1101111000 11110101101 0111010111 0111110111 1101110101 1101010101 11010011101 1111110101 1001110101 1101000101 1101010001 1101011111 0101010101 1101011111 1111011101 1110011011 1101000101 0111011101 1001110001 0101010101 0100010101 1111011110 0011110111 1111110010100 1101010111 1111010111 0111010101 1101010101 0101000111 01010100010 1111011101 1101110001 1111011101 1101110111 1101110101 0111111101 1101110101 11110100101 1101110101 0101110111 1101010101 1100010101 0101011111 01010101001 010100101010 001101001001 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 966
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 153
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, all, we, not, gods, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the, their, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase me connects the lines.
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- summary of Demeter And Persephone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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