This is an analysis of the poem The Name that begins with:
THY name was once the magic spell, by which my thoughts were bound,
And burning dreams of light and love were wakened by that sound; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101111101 110101110100111 11111101010111 01010101010111 10101101110011 11111101111101 01011111111101 11010101111101 1111111110101 111011101010101 110101011101001 101011101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Name;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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