This is an analysis of the poem How Looked The Earth? that begins with:
How looked the earth unto His eyes,
So lately closed on Paradise? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcded bbffdgghhgfeXc ggdfdibbjajafi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001 11011101 110100 01010101 11010101 11000111 10111111 10010111 001101 11010101 010011101 011011 111101 11010101 010101001 101100 11010101 01110001 101100 10110100 11010101 01010001 011011 01110101 01010001 010111 01010101 01010101 11010111 01010101 110111 011101 111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, snow, the are repeated.
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- summary of How Looked The Earth?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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