This is an analysis of the poem The Idlers that begins with:
The sun's red pulses beat,
Full prodigal of heat, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbba ccdeed fffggf ddehhe aahhhh XXbggb eegaag iihaah Xhfaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 110001 11000101000 111101 010101 10010101111101 010111 010101 0101011011 010101 110101 11110100010001 110011 101101 1111010011 111101 110111 01110111111111 010111 1000011 1111111101 110001 010101 01011101001101 101111 110111 0101010101 110101 110101 01110101110101 010100 0101001 1101010111 111101 001111 11010111011101 111101 010011 10011111111 011111 1100101 01001111011111 110101 111101 0111010101 101101 110111 10100101111111 0101100 010101 1101001101 110101 111111 110101011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; may, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words full, the, your, but are 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 The Idlers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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