This is an analysis of the poem Beacons that begins with:
Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth,
Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cdde dbae dfgd XhXh bgdX dgfd ddXc dXdX ddXd eeXe c Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010001001 1001111101 1111110011 1010011010001 101011010010 111010011 1010001011 01011111010 1111101010 10101000101 11010101 10101011010 10101011111101 100011100011 1001010011 11101010 10010100001 1110010010001 111100111010110 101010100001 100100001001 1101101010 0011001001000101 1001000101 10110011 10010101 100001011010 10101100110 0001010111010 10110110011 11001011100 110101010 110110011 110011110110 111001010001010 001101001100 00010101010100 110011010101 01010010100 01001010011 110111101010 11101100 10101110101 1101101010100 0101100100 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, these, thousand, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words these, it, a are repeated.
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- summary of Beacons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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