This is an analysis of the poem Sestina that begins with:
I wandered o'er the vast green plains of youth,
And searched for Pleasure. On a distant height... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXde eadXfX ceXabd dcbeaX fdaceb bfeXcadca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010011101 1111010101 10101110101 0111110111 1101000101 10010101101 1100011111 0101010001 11010110111 10110101011 11111010101 11011000101 1111110101 1101111101 111111101011 1001010001 1101100111 1101111101 10111111001 1011110101 1101000101 1101000101 11010100101 111111111001 1101110011 1101111001 1001010011 1001010001 1001010101 1101010101 1110101101 1011110101 1001011101 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 111011010111 1101011111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', i, from, gold, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word gold is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love, goal, height are repeated).
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- summary of Sestina;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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