This is an analysis of the poem Excelsior that begins with:
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Eastern village passed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX X bbXX X aaXX X ccXX X aXXX X aadX X XcdX X aaaX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 01111111 01011101100 11111111010100 01111101 10100101 11010111 11010101100 11010010110100 11110101 11010111 11010101 11010101100 101111110110100 111100111 11010011 01010111 11000101100 111111010110100100 11010111 11110101 11011101 11010111100 111110110100 10011111 01011101 11111001 11010111100 10110111100100100 11011100 11010101 11010101 11110110100 111101001010100 11010111 10110011 11110111 11110101100 1101011010111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; ' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Excelsior;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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