This is an analysis of the poem Variations: X that begins with:
Queen cleopatra, now grown old,
Watched the green grass turning brown ......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb ccXc dede cbab fbfb XgXg Xbbb XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1011101 010010101 110111 11010101 11001001101 111111110 110111 10101101 010101101 010010111 1101110 11110101 010100101 11110101 111101 101011111 11010111 11010101 111111 111100001 11011111 11100101 111101 110100101 110111001 101011111 111101 11010101 110011101 00111100 1011011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words queen, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Variations: X;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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