This is an analysis of the poem Circe that begins with:
He stood before her tall and very strong.
The swine and tigers crouched about her feet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXabaXcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 0111010101 110 0101010100 1001110101 1011011100 0111110101 10001010101 110010101 10111011111 0111001 111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; her, and are repeated.
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- summary of Circe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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