This is an analysis of the poem Œnone that begins with:

. There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier
Than all the valleys of Ionian hills.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbcbabdXeffbbagebch IDfjbcdgklh IDajcfacdfm IDagbjXb DeXanbnaael DlceobfXbejX DbcabmkjdokbcX DcalppXabbaX DecmlaacfXfbnfqfa DpfcacdbbpcjjX Depcancdgd fphrneX DjdlcXnndcajmfrejed IDfamneelac DaddXnlacpbd dnaXXfdaemaX Daqbjsbenecca Daaplfcceb D
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,11,11,8,11,12,14,12,17,14,10,7,19,11,12,12,13,10,15,11,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010100 110100101 0101010101 1111110101 1101011101 0111110111 11010110101 0111010101 010010100001 0101010100 1111010101 01010010101 111010101 010110111 10110001 0101011101 0111011101 1001110101 1101010101 1001010101 101000100101 110101010010 1101010111 1101010101 0110010001 0100011101 1101110111 0101010101 0101010101 1111011101 1101011111 1111100011 110101010010 1101010111 1111111111 1101111101 1101000101 1111011111 1100111101 1100010101 0111011010 1111000101 1111000101 110101010010 1101010111 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 10010101010 10011111110 1101010101 1101010111 1101011001 1101010101 0101010111 1101110101 1001110101 1001010101 1001010101 10110101110 1011011111 11001110111 1101010111 11110010111 0101011001 1110001111 11001101001 110111111 10011111 0101110110 10111100101 11001110101 01010100011 0101010101 1101010111 1101000101 1101110101 1101110001 1001010101 1101010111 1111010101 01001011101 0101100101 101100101 0101010101 01110010101 1101010001 1111110101 1101010111 01011011001 1101010101 00111001011 10110111010 11110101110 10010001100 1011010101 110101001011 01110100111 110100011 01110110111 1101010111 1011010111 11011010111 0111010101 1111010001 1011010111 1011001101 11110010101 1001010101 0101010101 1000010111001 11010001101 1100110001 1011110111 01011111101 11010100101 01010101010 1101010111 11111111010 1011000101 10100010101 11001001101 0101010111 1001011101 01101100111 0101111111 11110101010 1011011101 1001011101 0101000101 0100111000 1101010111 1111010101 11111101010 10010110111 110101111 10000010101 0101010101 0101011101 1001111101 1110010101 1100110101 11011101010 1111010001 1101110111 1001111011 1011010101 01000101000 1101010111 0111111101 1001011101 0101111111 1111110101 01010100100 1101110101 11011101111 1111111101 1111010011 1101110101 0111010101 1011011001 10001010110 10110100011 1000110111 11010111110 1001011111 1101111101 110101010010 1101010111 010100100 1101110101 0101010101 0011110011 0101010101 11000100011 11011100101 0101100110 1001010111 1101010111 1001010011 0100010101 1100011101 01011101010 1111111111 1111101101 111011101 1101000101 11110101010 1011001101 1110010111 1101010111 1011011111 1111110101 1011011101 1111011101 1101010101 11000111001 1111010111 0101111111 1101011101 0101011101 100101010 1101110111 1111011101 11111100101 1100111101 0101111100 1001010001 11010010011 0101110111 1001010101 11110101 1101010101 0101110101 01011101001 1101110111 1111100101 0101010001 1011011100 001000110101 000110101 1101010101 1101111111 1100011111 0101010111 1101110111 1111010101 0011010011 1101110101 1001010001 1101110101 11010111111 1101111111 1111110101 1101010101 1101011101 1111011101 1111111111 1101010101 1101111111 1101110111 10110111001 1101011111 1011010111 1111100101 1110111101 11110101010 0100010001 1001010101 0111010101 1001100101 1101110111 1111101101 1111010101 1001110101 1000101101 0011010111 1001110111 1001010111 01010010101 110001011 1010111111 11000111111 11111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 277
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, ida, my, of, o, his, all, from, power, self, right, thee, me, i, this, happy, how, death are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, my, far, and, o are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'o, 'dear at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines born is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Œnone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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