This is an analysis of the poem Shade that begins with:
‘What does a certain woman know of the hour of her death?’ - Mandelstam
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXbcXXXXXddac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 110101010010001100 1010011100 1010010011 10110011 11110101 101111010 0101110101 11101110 100100101 1011110 01001101110 11101000001 11110111 100100101100 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Shade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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