This is an analysis of the poem Retrospect that begins with:
A breath of balm—of orange bloom!
By what strange fancy wafted me, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee bfbf Xbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 10111001 11001101 01110101 01010111 11110101 110010101 11010101 01010101 01110001 010010001 11011101 11010101 11010101 10110101 11010101 00111101 11111101 010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 word somewhere is repeated.
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- summary of Retrospect;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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