This is an analysis of the poem World's Desire that begins with:

Love, there is a castle built in a country desolate,
On a rock above a forest where the trees are grim and great,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbbeedd cXce bbbb ccXbebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010010100 101010101011111 10001011010101 101010110101 1000101110001010 1010100101011010 10111011010101 10111010010101 10101010010101 0011101000101 111010010101 0011101010101 010101010111111 101011011010001 01110100010101 111010110101110 101001010010100 1001100100111010 10100101111111 1011101001111010 10001011010110 101010101010001 101010101010111 100010111101010 1010100000101010 101010110101010 1000010101010110 100010110001010 101110101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; and, of 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 World's Desire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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