This is an analysis of the poem Ad Astra that begins with:
Weary was I of Earth. My body lay,
Its fires turned down and slaked to faintest heat.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eded eded ebeb afgf hihi dcdc djdj gfaf kiki llll mcmc bhbh alal bfbf nono bpbp cdcd clcl didi iaia eaea oqoq jijiXphph
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011011101 010111100101 1111000101 111101 0111010111 01001010101 11011111001 1111001 1001010011 1111110101 0111001111 100101 111010101 1111011101 11110101001 010001 1111111101 11110101001 101001110101 0100101 1111110001 1101001101 1101010100 010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1010001 1101011101 11001111101 1101100101 111001 11010101010 1101111101 11010101010 110101 1100011100 0101010111 1001110001 110101 1111010001 1111010111 1101000101 010101 1011000101 1111010101 0111000111 111101 1101111111 0011011011 0101011100 101101 0101001101 1111110111 1101011111 111101 1101110100 100100111001 1011010001 110111 0101011101 1001011111 00111101001 010101 1101010101 11100101010 1111011111 1001010 01011100111 1101011001 1101011101 100101 0101010101 1111111101 0101000111 010101 1101110111 0101010101 0111110101 111111 11110001010 1111111111 1111010101 111101 1001100101 1001011101 1001000111 110111 1111010101 1101111101 1111010101 111101 11010111010 0110110111 10011100110 010011 01110100101 1111110101 1011110101 0111001 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of, her, all, to, them, they, out are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, whose, on, they, out, we are repeated.
The author used the same words and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ad Astra;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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