This is an analysis of the poem Requiem that begins with:
Where faces are hueless, where eyelids are dewless,
Where passion is silent and hearts never crave; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaba bcbcbc Xdeded XfefXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111110 11001011101 11111111111 01011111011 11110111010 1101011101 110110110110 11001011111 10010110110 11011101010 10110111010 01101111011 010110010110 01101001101 010010010010 11001011111 011110011110 10110101101 011010110010 11101011111 111010010110 11011001011 110101010010 1101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, the, no are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Requiem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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