This is an analysis of the poem Eliza that begins with:
Now stood Eliza on the wood-crowned height,
O'er Minden's plain, spectatress of the fight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddaaaaXXeeffeeccXXggXXaa eeecccc eeccfXcchhaaXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,7,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 10101100001 1011010101 0101010001 0101010101 1101010111 1001010101 1101110111 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 11110010101 1101010101 1001011111 11011110101 0111010101 1101011101 1011010111 1011110001 01110000101 10110100101 1111110101 1011010001 1111011101 1101111110 1101010101 0101010101 1111111101 11111110110 1011010101 1101000111 010100101001 1001110001 1001010111 10010010010111 10101010101 11001100101 11010100001 11010010101 01011100111 1111110101 1001010111 0111011101 11111001100 11110010101 10001110111 1101010111 1111010101 1110010101 1101010001 11011111101 11011111010 1011110101 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 861
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, ', his, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Eliza;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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