This is an analysis of the poem Tithonus that begins with:
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXebfgddhbbXaiejbccikbegjdha edeXbfdfeeXadX egkX gegXebajfeggXeXgdbgfejbbidhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,14,4,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 0101110001 1111011101 11010010101 1101010100 0111010011 1101010001 0111110101 0101010001 1101110101 0110111101 11000010111 1101110111 0011110101 111101100000 1111110001 1101111111 11110010111 1111111101 1111111111 0101000101 0101010101 1111010111 1101011101 1101010111 10110011101 0111111111 11010100101 0100010101 1101010100 1111101111 0111010111 0101111111 11010100101 01011101101 1101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1111011011 1111011101 1101001101 11011001010 1101110100 01010111010 1001111111 1111011011 1111010101 0111111101 11011001110 1111010101 0111101101 1101010111 0101110111 0111000101 1011011111 10011101001 1101110111 1101110101 01010111001 0101110111 10011110111 1111110101 11010110010 1111110011 1111010101 1011011111 1111111101 01110011101 1101110101 01011101001 11010001001 0111011001 111111111 1101110111 1101011101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 797
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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, me, immortal, thy, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, a, thy, thou are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines youth is repeated).
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- summary of Tithonus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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