This is an analysis of the poem Adonis that begins with:
1.
Each of us like you ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aBcdXdbXefg ABXcXcX X dfbcXbedgbdbXABAad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,7,1,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10111 111 1111011 111 110110 00101 010011 1001 1101011 111110 001 10111 111 101111111 110101 11000110 11001110 01 1 10110101 111 01110 101110110 1111 111001 01110111 11011011 110 11101 1111 011010 10111 111 10111 10111 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, gold, like, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word has is repeated.
The author used the same word each at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Adonis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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