This is an analysis of the poem Galatea that begins with:
A moment's grace, Pygmalion! Let me be
A breath's space longer on this hither hand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeeXdccedXfcbggdcgd hdbccefgicf XacecXegeffff Xgaaiha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,11,13,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110110 0111010101 0111111101 1000111111 1101110001 1111010101 1101001101 1101011101 1001010101 1001101101 0101010101 0111010101 0110010100 01110100010 01111000101 0101010101 1011011111 1111110000 1101110111 110010100111 0111011111 01011110101 01010101 11 10001010110 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1110110101 1111110101 1101011111 0101011101 1111011101 1111010111 1111011101 1111010101 1111010111 10101010101 10101101101 101001010101 01000010101 1111110101 0111010111 1101000100 1101000100 1111000100 1101010110 1101101100 1111010111 1001011101 1101010111 0101010111 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; too, for, his, and, in, or, all, thine, them, to, i, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, in, 't, thine are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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- summary of Galatea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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