This is an analysis of the poem Prothalamion that begins with:
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabcbccdddddXEE fgbffhgXXbiididXeE ibbiibabajaahahhEE kffkkalallffbfbbeE iffiilalaaffbfbbEE hjjhhmkmkXffffffeX fXeffeieiikkXkffeE lnnlldfdffnnknkkEE ajjaaglgllddedeeeEXeaaeecjcjjhhfhffeE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,37,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101001 1101000101 01010110001 1101110101 111101 1001011101 0101110101 0101111101 1101100111 110111 0101010101 1101010101 11010100010 1101010101 1011010 111100 0101011011 1111011111 1001110101 0101110010 1101000111 0101011101 111001 11110101010 10111001000 011101001110 1011011100 010111 01001101111 11010100101 01010111010 0101010111 0101010 01110010 0101011111 1111011111 0111110101 1101010101 1101110101 0111010101 010101 1101110110 1101010001 1101111111 1111111101 110110 11001010101 1100110101 0111010111 1111010111 111101 111101 0111011111 1111011111 10011111011 1101011101 1111010101 111111011 110101 0111010111 0111011101 01001100111 1101110101 111011 0001010101 1101010101 1011010111 01010111011 010101 111111 10111011111 1111011111 1111101101 11010010001 1001010101 1101110111 110101 1111010101 1101110101 10010110011 1101110101 101101 1011111101 01010101111 0101010101 11011100011 110101 010111 0111011111 1111011111 1101011100 11010101010 11101101010 1111110110 011100 1111010101 0011010111 1111110001 1101110101 110010 1101111101 111010111 1111010101 1101010101 111101 111101 0111011011 11110111110 1101110101 0001010100 1111011101 1101000101 110011 1111010101 1001100101 1111111101 1011010101 100111 1101100101 1101111001 0111110011 0101111001 011101 111101 0111011111 1111011111 1111010101 0101011101 1011011101 1001011111 110101 11110111010 0111011111 110100101110 1101010101 110111 1100110101 111111101 0111101101 1111111101 111111 111101 0101011011 1111011111 1011110101 11010101110 11011111010 1100110101 010111 11010100100 110100111 1110110100 1101000111 110001 11110101001 1101010101 11100100111 1101101101 111111 010100 0101011011 1111011111 011100101100 11001010101 0110101111 01000101010 0011100 0101010001 11010101110 10010100101 01011100010 1111010 1101011101 1101000101 1111000101 0111111101 1110101 110101 0111011011 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 731
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 180
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, they, of, your, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, yet, and, that are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word song at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Prothalamion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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