This is an analysis of the poem The Satyr that begins with:
When the flowery hands of spring
Forth their woodland riches fling,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbc ddXd eeXe ccfcXeefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001001 1111101 10111010 1010100 0010101 1011101 1011110 1010101 1010111 1010101 10101110 1010111 1010111 1010101 10111110 1010001 1010101 1111101 10101010 1010001 110111 1011101 10111010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word though is repeated.
The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Satyr;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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