This is an analysis of the poem The Grey Eros that begins with:
WE are desert leagues apart;
Time is misty ages now ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc dcdc efef gXge bhbh didiXfefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1010101 1010101 1011011 1111110 1110101 00100001 0010101 11101010 1011101 1001010010 10010111 1101101 1010101 1011101 1010101 10101110 0010110 10101010 1010001 1111101 1010111 1100101 1110101 1110111 0010101 1010101 10111001 1011111 0010101 1010101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word many is repeated.
The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Grey Eros;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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