This is an analysis of the poem The Meeting Of The Centuries that begins with:
A CURIOUS vision, on mine eyes unfurled
In the deep night. I saw, or seemed to see,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadeedcddcbffb c ccgghhee I aaggeejj I kkaagghh I eellmmaa I bbddeedd IXccddkkdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001011101 0011111101 11001111101 0101110001 1001010001 1101010101 1111010101 01110000101 1101010101 01001011101 1101010101 1001110101 11011100011 1011000101 10010100101 0111000101 011001 11110101001 1011000101 0111011101 1101111011 1111010111 1111110011 1011110101 1111010111 01100 1101110110 1001001111 1011010111 0111010000 1111010101 1101100100 1011010101 0011100101 01100 0101010111 0101010111 1001010001 1101010101 11010111001 1000101101 01000011101 11001010001 01100 1111110001 1101110111 0110010101 0101010101 10011111011 1101010111 10010001011 0111011101 01100 11110100101 0101011101 1100111101 0111110101 0101010101 1111010111 1101010101 11011100011 01100 1011111111 11110010101 1111010101 1111011101 0011011101 100010000101 0111110111 0001100001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, as, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Meeting Of The Centuries;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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