This is an analysis of the poem Narcissus that begins with:
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a baabccdcb edbfdg XcXbhciaXadj c k c lclchcdhafmjiiajeelcnddicdaXcchcnbhbXl a nlfdloclhihjdkmXcpagmbdloXl phji Xdilibikk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,6,12,1,1,1,38,1,27,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110110100 010010110 101100000100 11101010 110100111 10101011101 1011011000100 101010011101011 01010100111010 0100101010101010 11110111111 1111111111 11011110111 10011001110 100111011101 10100111001010 1110101010010 10011010101 1011010011111 110111001 0010000101 1111 100101 110001 10011011110 0001100010100 1000010110011 0111010101100 01110010010 0100010001 01010100110 1101010111 111100101111 01000111111 0110111111 001011111110100100 110010000101 1111010101 111110010111 100101011100 0101011010100 11001010101 001010100 111110100011 11111011111 11011101010101 10110011110 0100010111001 001011111 10110101111001100 0101011101110 110011011010001 011100111011 110111111101 01011100010101 010010001010101 11011110111 01001110011 001101110111 11110100100 1011010101 110111110111 01110101011110 110101011001 0011110011100101 1101101101001 010011110110 111111111011111 01110111101 010101001101 010100101001001 0101011111 0101011101101100 010101011101 1100100100111101 1011000100111 11110111101 101111011111011 10111100100 10111111111 111111101 1011011010101011100110100 1001110111 11111101111 101101110001 0101001000 1001010001001 1001011101 1011001011101100 111111100 110010110100101011 101111010111 10110101011 000011000001 0101000101 1101101100 11011011001011 1100111101 0100011011 10110011100 11110010110111 11010100101 0111011111 01110111 10011100101 1110100101 110101011101 011110111 0101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 121
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, and, of, dread, love, self, my, mind, one, you, at, they, in, or, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, a, the, are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of Narcissus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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