This is an analysis of the poem The Mystic Veil that begins with:
When the shadows take their nightly places,
When departing light is faint and pale,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded ccdeD fgfgcdeD ahahXdeD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111010 101010111 10110101010 1010101 1100101010 10011101 111100011 1011101 111101110 11101110 11101110111 111100011 1011101 1110101010 10111010101 10110101010 0010111 1010101010 101010101 111100011 1011101 1010101010 111010111 11111111010 1010111 1001101010 111100101 111100011 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, come are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Mystic Veil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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