This is an analysis of the poem The Mirror that begins with:
The mirror held your fair, my Fair,
A fickle moment's space. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 010101 11001111 110111 11001101 111101 01010111 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; my is repeated.
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- summary of The Mirror;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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