This is an analysis of the poem Thomas Trevelyan that begins with:
Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys,
Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXaXXbXXXXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010010010 1001010111 10101001011010 0101101011 1010100100010 101110100100 10010111010 1101100101001 100101001110 01011101010 01101101001 110101010110 010100111111 11011010011101 10111101011 110110101100 110111101010 01001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 862
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, tereus, and, all, us are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Thomas Trevelyan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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