This is an analysis of the poem Circe that begins with:
The sun drops luridly into the west;
darkness has raised her arms to draw him down ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdeffgd fabhiafchhfffjdhhXfklm dccjfnfoXfhfdXp ajXbdpfaco fjpbjqhjcfX baj ccacjpjjhfjji drfe jjfdbfsXXb eafqtpcjbbddjmpd fqfqnfahkhpfdhcfa bjljXfqaagn mnufdsjfaXfXsqfqaqpaufhbrhp nhurucgg hcpjfeXefbflfdqffjfhhXe othdcfeeXqpa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,22,15,10,11,3,13,4,10,16,17,11,27,8,23,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111000001 1011010111 0101110101 1111000101 1011110001 11110010111 0101011101 1000010001 1111010101 10011111001 11010101110 10011010101 1001010101 11001011111 1111001101 1000010101 01001011101 1011110101 111101111 11001100101 1101110101 1101000100 10011111001 0011111011 1101011101 1011001111 0111000101 1111110100 10110010111 1001010101 1101011111 1001010100 1111000111 1101111101 0110110001 1101010111 0101010101 11001010101 0111101101 0111010101 11000010101 1011010101 1101101101 01010011001 01010111101 1001010111 1111000101 1111110101 1101111111 1011111010 00101011111 1011110101 1101010101 10010101001 1101010100 0011111101 0101010111 1101110101 1111000111 1101010011 1111110111 11110010111 1101011111 0101011100 1111010101 11111101111 11110101011 1011001000 1111011101 1101010110 1111011111 1011111111 1101111011 1101010100 1101010111 0101110111 1101011100 1111010111 0101011101 0111001101 1101010101 11010100101 1101001111 1001110101 1111111111 1001011001 1111101100 1111111111 1111011101 00110001001 1111011111 0111100101 0101010101 0101011101 1100111111 01011101110 1111011101 1111011101 1110111111 1100010101 1101001101 1011111101 11101111010 1100111101 0111010111 11110111101 1110010101 1011010101 1101111101 1111111111 1101011101 1100110100 11111001001 11010011101 11010011001 11010101101 0111010111 1011010101 0101001011 11010010101 1111011111 1101010111 10010000101 0111001101 10011010101 10010101001 1101110111 10110010111 0101010101 1111111111 1111010100 1101101001 1011000101 11010011101 1001010101 10001010100 100101001101 11111101001 10001011100 0101010001 0111010101 101111010111 1101010100 0111011101 1101110101 1101110011 1101111100 1111110111 0100010111 1011010111 1101101101 1001011100 1010110101 01010101001 0100010101 1100011111 1000010100 1001110111 10101111001 1011010001 1101110111 0111011111 0101110101 0101011101 1001010111 1011010001 1101001001 1101110100 1111011101 1111111101 0111010011 0101110101 1101101101 1111111011 1101010011 0111111101 0110111101 1101110101 1001111111 10111111111 0111011111 1111001101 0110010111 0101010001 1100110111 11000111001 11011101001 1011010001 1011011111 1001100101 1110111100 1111011111 1101111001 1001011111 1100110101 0111011101 11001011111 11011101001 111100110010 1101110111 11010010101 11010101110 1001110101 1101010101 11000010101 0101011101 1001011101 1111000111 0101011011 1001110001 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 552
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 211
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, storm, of, oh, come, love, me, to, i, one, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, will, but are repeated.
The author used the same word oh 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 touch is repeated).
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- summary of Circe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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