This is an analysis of the poem The Old Pole Star that begins with:
BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the days
Man tethered Change to his fixed star, and said:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcX addad edeed fccfc gXggX Xbabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101001101 1101001111 1101011111 11110101001 11010101110 1101010101 0100110101 1111110111 0100010100 01110011101 0100011101 1101010101 1111001111 1101010101 0111011101 11010100101 011101101 1001010001 1101110111 1101010001 0111110111 1111010011 10010110011 1101000101 11010101100 1101010101 1111011111 1111010111 1101010101 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Old Pole Star;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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