This is an analysis of the poem The Ideal And The Actual Life that begins with:
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,
Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbdadX eefggfhihiffjffjklkl ffdccXhmhm fnXjjcllll mmceeckjkj hhhffhobob aajaajplpl gglkkladaX XXeaaelala oolddlhlXl mmdppXgfgn eedjjdgdgd hhhffhededXffekkeclcl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 11110101 111100100101 1111010001 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 0101010110 1101010111 010111 10111010101 10010101 0101110011 1010010111 1101010101 10010101001 1101110111 110100010010 1101000101 1111010 0100010111 01010101 101110101 1011111001 0101010101 010101101001 11110010101 1011010101 10011101001 00010001 1101001101 10011101 100101101 1111010111 11010101001 110101100 11010010101 01010001001 11010100101 0100101 1001010111 11011100 1011000011 10011011101 1111110101 1011010101 1101010101 1001010101 1001100100 10011 0111010101 1100101001 0101010101 0011111101 1101010001 10110101001 1111011101 01110100101 01010010101 110101 1111110101 11011111 1111110101 1011001101 0101010101 1011001111 1101110101 1101010001 1011110101 010101 1111010101 00110011 0101011101 01110100101 01110001100 01010101001 1101011001 001010001001 0111000101 100101 1100010101 10110111 1001011101 01101110101 0011110101 1011011001 0101010101 1101110101 0101010111 01110011 0101010101 001111011 1011010111 0111010011 100100001 1111011101 0101001011 1101011101 1101011111 110111 11010000101 00111111 1101110101 0011000101 10010011001 1101000110 1101010101 0101010101 11110001011 110111 00010100101 01110101 1011110101 1101010101 110011101001 01010110 0101011001 0101010111 1111111101 011100 1000110111 10111101 1010101111 1111010101 11001010111 0101001101 1101011101 00110101010 1011110101 0011010 10010010001 11010101 1101011001 0101010001 1001011101 1101000111 1101110101 1101010101 0101011001 010111 0101110101 110100101 0101000101 00100101101 1001001001 1011010101 1101010101 010010100101 1101000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 445
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, downward are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, behold, if, here, until are repeated.
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- summary of The Ideal And The Actual Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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