This is an analysis of the poem Blur that begins with:
Storms of perfume lift from honeysuckle,
lilac, clover—and drift across the threshold,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcdaefcdXgXeXXbgafbdhgeXfibadhid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101010 11101101011 1101001101 11100110001 0101100100 11001011101 1111100111 1110100110 110101010001 1101010100 110011111001 110101001 1100011100 011101000 11110101111 11111110100 010100101110 110110111001 11001100101 11111101100 1110111 11111111010 1101010101 100110010101 0101110101 01010111010 111010000101 01010011100101 11011111110 10101111010 001101010011 0101011001 11111000010 11111111010 11110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1474
- Average number of words per stanza: 264
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length 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; i, and, it, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, to, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Blur;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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