This is an analysis of the poem Leda that begins with:
Where the slow river
meets the tide, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXee XeeXeebe fbagccge gecgdXgfcfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 101 011111 1101 11010101 0011 100101 10110 00101 0111 0101011 101 010011 1100101 0101 10110 001 100010 1101 0101 110101 11 111101 1101 1101 111100 0101 101101 01110 1011 011100 0111 101100 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
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- summary of Leda;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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