This is an analysis of the poem Elegy that begins with:
Let them bury your big eyes
In the secret earth securely,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbacbbbc deefgadageegf hecfbfefhbcffc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,13,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 00101010 1110111 101001010 10101110 0010111 1111111 10101010 11111110 11101010 10001 1110000010 0010101 1010001 0010101 10101001 10101110 10101010 10101010 0011101 1101101 1010011 1011111 1000101 1010101 001001 1010101 1010101 1110100 1110101 1111101 1110111 1010011 1010100 0010101 11101110 101001010 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, but are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Elegy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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