This is an analysis of the poem The Evil Eye that begins with:
It comes oozing
out of flowers at night,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeefXg chheiXj kjhecjgcdi lXfkmmjgaXdlhjbmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,10,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 101011 011001 001110 01101110 0111101111 010011111 1001011 0101 01101110 1110001 0110101 1101101 111001110 111001 1110 01101011 100 111110110 1101 111110 1110 10101101011 110011 10101110101 0001001010010 0011000101001 1101 01000101 101001001011 10110101011 1010101 110010 11101111 11110 11111 111 11101 110110100010 11110110 10111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; your, his, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines life is repeated).
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- summary of The Evil Eye;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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