This is an analysis of the poem Absence that begins with:
Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11100111100001 10001111100101 11011111111001 00111011010111 10101011101111 11010010100111 11101111011101 0111011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Absence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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