This is an analysis of the poem Shakespeare that begins with:
Standing alone, a study in itself,
How Shakespeare’s volume glorifies my shelf! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ddccceebbffgghhii bbcXhheejjkkk cclljjbbmmddffhhddbbkk bbffnneehhhhbbooff ppeeXhcchhmmmmffbbhhffddbbcccccnnXiibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,13,22,18,38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010001 110001010111 1101011111 1011010101 100010001010 0101100001 1001110101 1111000111 1101100101 1101011101 10010100011 1011000111 1100110101 1110001001 110101010101 1001110101 0111110101 1101001001 101100101 1101111101 1111000101 1001001111 11010101011 1111010111 1101010011 1111010101 0101111101 1111001101 110011101100 11001010101 1101000101 1111010111 10111110110 11111101010 01010111010 010010100111 11001011101 010101010101 1100110101 1110010001 0101000101 1111001101 11010101010 01010001010 0101110101 11010111001 1011110101 0100010001 1111001101 110010001001 10101111111 0101000101 01011011101 11011101101 01010101001 11011100101 1001010011 100010110001 1011101101 0100101110001 10010010101 1110110111 1111010101 1110010101 1110011001 0111110011 11111101001 1111011101 1111110101 11110010111 1100110001 11011010001 0111010111 1101011101 0101010111 010010011001 01110000101 01001010101 1101010011 1101000101 0111000101 0111101101 0101010100 1111110001 0101011101 110011001 1110010111 0111010100 0101011001 1101000101 1101010111 0100011100 10011101010 11110011110 0101011101 0101001101 100101011 1101011101 1101110101 1001010011 1111010101 1101000101 1011010011 01011101001 01001001001 11011001001 111101111001 11010000111 1101000101 1101011111 01001010001 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 10110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 729
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 115
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, s, with, or, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gain connects the lines.
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- summary of Shakespeare;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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