This is an analysis of the poem Enigma that begins with:
TO THE LADIES
Hard is my stem and dry, no root is found... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccaaddeebb eeffbbggff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0010 1011111101 0101010001 10110010101 010010110101 11001010101 1011110101 0101011101 1001010001 0101110101 0101010001 11011100111 1101011101 0101111101 1111011111 11110101001 1101011101 1101011101 0111010101 1111010101 1001110101 1101110101 01111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and 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 Enigma;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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