This is an analysis of the poem Faun's Head that begins with:
Among the foliage, green casket flecked with gold;
in the uncertain foliage that blossoms ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbX cbXXXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101101001 0001010110 010101101 1011010100100 01011011 11010100011 1110001101 011101001010 111111010 01011011001 1111101010 0101001 1000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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- summary of Faun's Head;
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