This is an analysis of the poem The Spell that begins with:
OUR boat has drifted with the stream
That stirs the river's full sweet bosom ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc caca cdcd aeae cfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 110101110 11111111 111111010 11010101 010010011 01111101 010001011 10110101 010111010 10010001 110111010 111111001 011101110 110010101 111001010 11010111 110111011 11011101 0011001011 111101001 011101110 110111010 110001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Spell;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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