This is an analysis of the poem Elegiac Ii. that begins with:

Trunks the forest yielded with gums ambrosial oozing,
Boughs with apples laden beautiful, Hesperian,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXcXaXXXXcab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100101010 101010100100 101000001100010 1001101001100 00101011001010 10110100100 10011011010010 111011000100 1011011010010 1001001001010 1010011010010 1001101010000 101011110100010 1001101001010 100101011110010 1010101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 803
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; in is repeated.

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  • summary of Elegiac Ii.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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