This is an analysis of the poem Eurydice that begins with:
I
So you have swept me back,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcDce FFbXX Fefe eXfghe X ifeX bXff befdf fcFfff jdXbbccjXe X dedde ebbbe X Xccdce ciiddad ddkcgXfff a fFdddeef eff fFf fcfjf dDfceff cbd a bXffae chcXbff X kgefe ffbfeXecf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,4,6,1,4,4,5,6,10,1,5,5,1,6,7,9,1,8,3,3,5,7,3,1,6,7,1,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111111 111110011 0101 11111010110 11 111100 11100 1111 11101 11001101 111100 111011 1111110 111101 011111 1110100 001 011111001 11011 101 1 1101011 1101011 10111 1100 10111 11101000 0111 100100 10111 1011011110 101111 100100101 0111 1101111 00101 111 11011011 010111 01001110 1111010 110001 10110 100110001 1011 1010010100 1011001100 100110 1001110 111 1 10001001 110111 1001101 101011101 1101011 10101 1010101 1011 1111 01001 1 1011 01100 1001011001 101101 1001011010 1 10 01111011100 0100 111 10100101 1101 0101 011111001 010010001 0111110011 01010100 101 101010100110 0100101 0100110 111101 1 111100 11100 11101 1010001 10110101 11110101 11 10 111111 11010010 11110 1111100 111 1110 11011 1101111111 010 110 011 1011111 0101 1011 11110 11101 1110 01 1101111 1110101011 0010011 1 0101 11110 1101010011 01010 1011 1111 1010 01111 11101111 011 101111 11110001 10110010 1 1111010011 11111 111 110100111010 1111011 1110001 10 110101 1010101 11101111 01111 11101011 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 143
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, face, earth, black, of, blue, and, such, no, nor, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, why, the, and, all, everything, blue, who, such, nor are repeated.
The author used the same words so, why, what 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 face, crocuses, earth, lost, black, them, presence are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word loss at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases black, crocuses, you connect the lines.
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- summary of Eurydice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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