This is an analysis of the poem The Star that begins with:
I HAD a star to sing by, a beautiful star that led,
But when I sang of its splendour the world in its wisdom said:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbX ddeXcceXXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010110100111 111100100100101 11111010110101 111110000101001 1111110111101 101011011101111 10111010101101 1101111101111001 111111111100111 0100111001100111 1011100101111101 101001101111011110 1110011111100111 111110101101001 1011110111100111 100101111101001 1111111001111011 10101011111101 0010101111111111 11101101101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; but, of, your, and, i, my, star are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Star;
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