This is an analysis of the poem The Sending Of The Magi that begins with:
IN a far Eastern country
It happened long of yore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacadeaefeebbbgbhaiaXahfXffXjijiXXcaXagaggjgdXcdhdkXchbXkXXeeejecccaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011010 010101 10111011 100101 1111010 1010101 1011110 1101101 001001 110101 1100010 110101 1111010 110101 1101010 110111 1101010 0010001 10111101 110101 0001010 011111 1011100 011101 10011111 010011 010100100 110101 1111110 1100110 0100010 111111 01111100 100101 11010111 111101 110110100 1010101 01010100 010101 11001101 110101 1011111 010101 0101110 110011 1101110 110110 110010010 111101 1101011 111101 1111010 001001 1101010 110101 0100110 111101 1101010 010111 11011100 110101 1101111 101101 1011010 110001 1101110 0101100 1111010 010101 0101010 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2031
- Average number of words per stanza: 365
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in, one, 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 The Sending Of The Magi;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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