This is an analysis of the poem The Mystic Blue that begins with:

Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping,
Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd eXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010010010 10101001110 010100101001010 0101010101 100110101001 1001010101 1100010010111 100100101111 10010101101 11010111101 0111010001 11010100001 11111111001 01001011011000 1001001011011001 0111001010100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, blue are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Mystic Blue;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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