This is an analysis of the poem Image that begins with:
Calm as a long-forgotten marble god who smiles,
Colossal, in the grim serenity of stone,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba bccb dXcd XbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101010111 010001010001 010101010101 01001010011010 110101010101 111101000111 111101010101 100100011101 110101110101 01011110101 110100010101 0101110111001 1010101011110 011001011101 110101011101 0101001001100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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- summary of Image;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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