This is an analysis of the poem Mirage that begins with:
How is it that, being gone, you fill my days,
And all the long nights are made glad by thee? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaabcadedeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011011111 1101111111 1100001100 1110111001 0101010111 1110111110 1111000100 0101110101 1100110111 0100010101 1101010101 1111110101 111101010100 0101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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- summary of Mirage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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