This is an analysis of the poem A Sphinx that begins with:
Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never let out a whisper.
Processions came by, marchers, asking questions you answered with grey...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110011011010 010111010101100111010111010 111010111110111010 11101111111111101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 89 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, know, i, of, never are repeated.
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- summary of A Sphinx;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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