This is an analysis of the poem Chagrin that begins with:
Caught still as Absalom,
Surely the air hangs... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba XXXcXdXcXX XbXefedfXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 10011 001011 110100 11101 000101 010001 010111 11111 010101 0011101 001100 110101 11001100 1000101 001001 011111 111011 11111101 1011111 111101010 010100101 1100 11100111 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word caught at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Chagrin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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