This is an analysis of the poem Messages that begins with:
What shall I your true-love tell,
Earth-forsaking maid?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAb cccX AdAd ebeX AeAX fXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 10101 1111111 11101 1111101 11101 1101101 111010 1111111 11101 1111111 1101 1101111 00101 1111011 11111 1111111 10101 1111111 11100 1110111 111001 1110111 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, with are repeated.
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- summary of Messages;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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