This is an analysis of the poem Mirrors that begins with:
Mirrors of steel or silver, gold or glass antique!
Whether in melancholy marble palaces...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXXa bccbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100111011101 100101010100 0111110101000 010111100011 110101110101 010011100100 011001010100 100101100101 0101001010101 10010010011 110101010001 101101110101 110101110101 101101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; or, mirrors are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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- summary of Mirrors;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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