This is an analysis of the poem Ecstasy that begins with:
Blind with your softly fallen hair,
I turn me from the twilight air;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bXcb cddd eedeXaada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 11100111 11010101 11011101 111101001 01010101 010000111 11010011 11011111 10110011 11001101 11010111 01010111 10110011 10010101 01110101 01010011 01010101 01111101 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ecstasy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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