This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph that begins with:

Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on,
testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdcXXXaa
  • 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: 0101101011011 101110110101 1101110101001 0010110010001 101101110110 1110110101 110100110101011 101011001101 001010110101 10101011111000 1101101100100 0011111111001 110100111101 101001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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