This is an analysis of the poem Beauty that begins with:

How lovely the land lies beneath the moon!
Fairer a hundred times than Love or Life;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacXad ecdaa fddffecfghcghe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100110101 1001011111 1011010101 1100110001 0101010111 001101000101 0101011000 1111111111 1010010100 10011010100 101111101 0101110001 1011011101 0101010101 0110010111 0101011101 0100010111 0101001111 01001000001 0101100100 0110110110 1101010001 110101010010 0101010101 110101001001 110101010010 1101011001 0100010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fairer, a are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Beauty;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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