This is an analysis of the poem Perfectness that begins with:
All perfect things are saddening in effect.
The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b b X a b b a c d d c X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10111100001 0101100101 0101010101 11011111010 1011010101 11110101101 1101010111 1111010001 10011100001 1101010101 1001011101 0101111111 1101000111 1101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Perfectness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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