This is an analysis of the poem Malediction that begins with:
While the black perennial snows
Piled about the pole of night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb cbc bdb ded efeXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 1010101 101111 1010101 1011101 1010111 1010101 1010101 0100101 1010101 1110101 0011001 1010101 1010001 1000101 1010101 10101010 1111111 00101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Malediction;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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