This is an analysis of the poem The Sign that begins with:
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Metre: 111001001010 101101101010 101100100101110 1010111010010 11001011100010 01011010011 01101011011 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, my are repeated.
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- summary of The Sign;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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