This is an analysis of the poem Voyage To Cythera that begins with:
Free as a bird and joyfully my heart
Soared up among the rigging, in and out;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XccX adad bebe Xffg ehhe dgdg cici ieei adad XjjX baab acca bddbXggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110011 1101010011 1001010111 111010101 101110111110 1000011110101 110110011 11011001110 11010010100 0101010101 1001110101 01010011001 10001110010 10111111010 1010101010 10101001010 1101110100 11001010101 01010100101 0111111001 01110101011 0011010011 0101010101 01110001001 1101010101 0101011111 1101101111 0101010101 0101111011 0101010111 1101010101 1101010101 01010101010 111011101 01001101111 11011101110 0101010101 1101011111 1101010101 11110100001 110010011 100110101 10010011101 0100111001 01010011111 10011010001 1101010001 0101001111 0100110101 1101011101 010100101101 101111101 0111010101 1101110101 1110100111 1101010101 1101111011 1111010101 1111010101 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, own, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Voyage To Cythera;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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