This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:X Age that begins with:
O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts,
when a white, unexpected plumage surmounts all your arrogance,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110110100101 1011010101011100 1010111110110101 1010111101000101 00111000111001001 0101111101001011 111111101011101 1111011010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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