This is an analysis of the poem A Desolation that begins with:
Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd efbXXf bXaaea XXcXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 10101 11010 10100 11111 10011 00111 011 10011 110 11 10010000 11011 10101 1101 1101 1101110 01100010 10110 110101 0100111 100100 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of A Desolation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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