This is an analysis of the poem Gazelle that begins with:
1
Let my poem, like a shrine, contain - your name;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabaaabaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 11101010111 01111010111 11100110111 00100110111 10111011111 10101110111 11111110101 10101000111 1110010101010 10101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my, your are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines name is repeated).
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- summary of Gazelle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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