This is an analysis of the poem The Eternal that begins with:
Your dear desired grace,
Your hands, your lips of red,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdd edeXd dfddXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 111101 01001011 01111101 1111 11001 100101 11011101 01011111 0011 11001 001101 11010101 01010100 1101 1101011 0001001 11111001 01110100 11101100 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Eternal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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