This is an analysis of the poem Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls that begins with:

Not in a silver casket cool with pearls
Or rich with red corundum or with blue,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXddddbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001010101 1101010101 1101011101 11011111101 1001011001 10110101010 10100101001 1001010101 1001011111 10010010101 1111110001 1001110001 1111011101 10111000111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 614
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, in are repeated.

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  • summary of Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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