This is an analysis of the poem Hic Vir, Hic Est that begins with:
Often, when o'er tree and turret,
Eve a dying radiance flings,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdaXa eaXXdXff gebXXdXd cfaffhXh eeXeagdg ebbbXiei XdXddaca XbdbXabX eifibhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101110 10101001 11101110 1100011 10101010 1101101 101010010 1110011 11001010 1010001 0010100 101011 11100011 1011101 11101110 1110111 10101010 1010101 01100110 1010001 1111101000 1010101 10111010 10100001 10101110 1001101 10101110 1010101 10101011 0010101 111110100 1010101 11101010 1111101 10011010 10100101 11000010 1010001 11101010 10100001 10111010 11101110 101010010 10101010 11101010 1010101 10101010 1111101 10101010 1001101 11101110 1010001 11101010 11100111 111000100 1010101 11101110 10100010 101000100 11001010 11111110 10011101 11100010 11111 10111011 1010111 101110100 1111101 1001110101 1101111 111001011 0110001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Hic Vir, Hic Est;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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