This is an analysis of the poem Anticipation that begins with:
How beautiful the earth is still,
To thee - how full of happiness!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdccd Xeefgggf hhcciiff bXbbbejXjf eeeklllk mmmfcccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,8,10,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 01110100 1101011 10110001 101111101 11011001 010101 11110101 01011101 111111 11101110 10010100 11110101 0101001 11110111 011111001 11011101 011101 101111101 11100101 11010101 11011101 01010111 11111101 110010101 11111111 01111111 010100 10111101 11001101 110010101 000101 111100010 10010100 110111010 01011000 00111101 11011001 11010100 010101 11100111 11111101 11110101 111101 11000111 100010001 11011101 011111 01011011 01110101 101100101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the are repeated.
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- summary of Anticipation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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