This is an analysis of the poem Astrophobos that begins with:
In the Midnight heaven's burning
Through the ethereal deeps afar ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd efefeX agXgag ghghghicXciXfbfbfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111010 100100101 11101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 10101010 0010101 10001010 00101001 00111010 1000101 11111010 101111 11101010 1000101 11101010 0010100 11111010 1010001 11100100 101101 10111010 1010111 111110010 10101001 10100010 1000101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 11111110 1110111 10001010 10101010 11101010 0010101 11101010 1111101 10101110 1111000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of Astrophobos;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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