This is an analysis of the poem Octaves that begins with:
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We thrill too strangely at the master’s touch; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXdeffg X efghijkX X idifglaf X fmnkfago a djigiied a iopdgije X ifjinjcj X qidriiqj X hgiXiqpf j igXjlaah a Xbhmairi X cjfhplig X klgjXejh X fXhjiefi X qibiifil X pshgcjpd X ieeicdci X jijisjjm X edkjgids X cgdmmimd X hgifgfgg X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111010101 1111000101 11010101000 11000011111 1111010101 010010101 0111110100 0111010011 1 100010011 1001100101 0101110011 1101010111 1111010011 0100011100 11011000001 0101011100 1 0101001100 1101010101 1101010101 0100010101 0101000101 0100010100 1101010001 0101010001 1 1111010111 0101110011 11110011111 1101010101 11010111000 1111011101 1111011101 0101010001 1 1011011011 01011000101 1111010001 0111111111 110101001 0101110101 0101110101 1111010001 1 1111110101 0101010101 0101100111 0100110111 1101011111 01000110001 1010111011 0101010101 1 0100111001 1111010011 0111011101 100010101 1101010001 110000100 1100010001 1101100101 1 1011001101 1111111101 0110010111 1100010101 1110010001 1100101101 0101010111 1101010001 1 1111111111 0001011101 0101011101 11011110000 1101110110 1101110101 1101110101 0101001100 1 1101110111 1011111101 11001001101 1001010001 10011010100 1101110101 10101110101 0101011101 1 1101011100 1100000011 0111011111 0111110101 1111011111 1101110100 1101011101 010100001 1 0101110101 01010011101 0111010101 1101010101 0101010111 0101010100 1100010011 1111010101 1 1111000101 1111011100 1100111101 01100110101 1101011000 0011010011 1101100001 0011110011 1 1011011111 010010001 0101010101 0100010111 0111010101 01010011001 1001001101 1101001110 1 1101000111 1111010111 0101111111 0101010011 1100010111 0101010011 1101010111 0110010100 1 1011011101 0101010101 1101010011 01110101001 1111110111 1101011101 0101000101 1011010001 1 0111010111 1100010101 1110010101 1100111111 1101111101 0101110101 1101110001 0011010101 1 1011100101 0101010011 11000010001 00010010011 0001010101 1101110101 1101001101 1101011111 1 11001111001 0101101101 1100110011 1001110101 1101110101 1101011101 1100010100 1100010011 1 0100110101 0101010101 01001010001 1101011111 1101010111 0011001111 1111100111 0101110111 1 0101010001 0101110001 0101010011 0100110001 1011000001 1101010001 1101010101 0101010011 1 1000101010 0100010011 0101010110 1000011101 1101010111 0111110111 1101010001 0100010101 1 1101011101 11100010101 1111100101 1111011111 1100011100 1101010101 0101110111 01000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 46
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 229
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; we, and, to, of, that, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the, of, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come is repeated).
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- summary of Octaves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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