This is an analysis of the poem The Morning Star that begins with:
IN the black pool of the midnight Lu has slung the morning star,
And its foam in rippling silver whitens into day afar ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeffXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001100111110101 1010100101000101 101010101010111 101110101000101 001101101010101 1010101001000100 1011101010101010 1111101010001110 101110101111111 101011100011001 001110101010101 111110100010001 101011111011101 011011101010001 101010101110101 101010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, , of are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Morning Star;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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