This is an analysis of the poem The Mystery that begins with:
If sunset clouds could grow on trees
It would but match the may in flower;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dcdc aeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111111 011101010 11010101 110001010 010111010 10110101 111101110 111111001 11011111 111100101 01010101 11100101 10111111 010011001 11110101 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; mean is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Mystery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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