This is an analysis of the poem Shadows that begins with:
Thy shadow falls on the fount,
On the fount with the marble wall. . . ....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbcaXXXccXdddedfcfXffggddehhed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 10100101 10100111 1010011 0110101 1100111 1010001011 001000110 1011001 1011011 0010111 10110100 11110101 1111011 01011111 101110110 00100111 111101110 10100101 111001010 001000100 11110101 00101011 1110111 1010101 001001001 1110111 001001110 10100101 11100111 11111110 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1072
- Average number of words per stanza: 204
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; on, of, and 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 Shadows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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