This is an analysis of the poem The Pleiades that begins with:
LAST night I saw the Pleiades again,
Faint as a drift of steam ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcAbc decdec afeafe agfAgf ahiahi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010101 110101 011101 1101011101 011101 111101 1101011101 110111 110001 1111111101 111101 011101 1111010111 0101010 010011 1101010111 0111001 1111001 1111010101 1001001 111111 1101011101 110111 111101 0101010111 111101 110111 1111110101 011101 011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1122
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Pleiades;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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