This is an analysis of the poem Millennium that begins with:
The great millennium is at hand.
Redder apples grow on the tree.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC ababdXbC abadbcbCXacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010100011 10101101 010100101 10110111 101001101 010011101 10111101 1011110101 101101101 10010111 010100111 10101011 100100100 0100101101 101101101 1011110101 110001101 1001011001 010100101 0111011100 11011101 010010101 0010110110 1011110101 100100011 110100011 0101011001 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Millennium;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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