This is an analysis of the poem Meeting that begins with:
MY Damon was the first to wake
The gentle flame that cannot die; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dedefXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 11000101 11010101 01010101 11001101 10011101 10010101 10011101 11110101 110100111 110100110 111100101 10010110 111101001 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Meeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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