This is an analysis of the poem Sacrifice that begins with:
THOSE delicate wanderers,
The wind, the star, the cloud, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababac adbdcb eadaed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100 010101 100111 101101 111101 100101 010001 100111 110111 111111 110101 110101 0100010 110101 010101 011111 1001010 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; is repeated.
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- summary of Sacrifice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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