This is an analysis of the poem To The Eye that begins with:
THRONE of expression! whence the spirit's ray
Pours forth so oft the light of mental day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccdd eeaaddffgg ccaaXhddcc bbhhaXhhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010101 1111010101 11010100101 1101010101 11001011101 1011000101 11011110111 0101010101 1111010101 01010010101 1001000101 1101011101 1101010101 11101010101 001001011001 11111100101 11110101010 10010100010 1111010101 00101001101 1101110101 1011010111 111001001001 11001110101 1101011110 10001000101 11110110101 1101000111 1111000101 0011000101 1111010001 11010100101 10111010001 01010010101 110011100111 1101010100 1111111101 011000101 11110100001 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, of, that are repeated.
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- summary of To The Eye;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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