This is an analysis of the poem Narcissus that begins with:
Since the great, glad greeting of dawn from the eastern hills
Triumphant ran with a shout to the woods below,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccccdD eaeaffggaahhiiD gffe gbbbjjhhXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,15,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011100100101 010100100101 00100100101001 11110101 1011101001011 101011001001 01011000111 00110111 100111111001 10101101 00110111011 00100110101001 010110100101 1110101100101 101101111101 1110100101 11011110101001 110101001001 011101111 1011100101 0111010101 11001110101 10100111001 100101001101 10101101 010010101101 1111110101 1011100110101 010 1001010001 101110011111 01010101 01010101010101 010111 1011100101 01101001001 1011101101101 01110011100 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, to, has, his, her, narcissus, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, its are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word he at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Narcissus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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