This is an analysis of the poem The Nymphs that begins with:
I stood before a chain of beautiful mountains forming a semicircle. A
young, green forest covered them from summit to base....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab Xc bd eaX dX fgXX eXhaifbbebaj ghcX aki X cd Xkij c lje chlXgXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,3,2,4,12,4,3,1,2,4,1,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010100101001000 111010001001 100101010101101010 10001110001110100 1011010111001100101 1011110100101 01011101110110010101 0101111010111010 10100111101 01010101110110101 01111101 111001001101011 01011010010111111 101011011101010 101110101111000 1001000101001111110 110111110110010100 111100100100110101 1100110110101010 1001101010011001010 1001001110101011100 10101010111100101 1100101110101011 0101101101001010 101001010110101 11100100001100 1 1111011100100001111 011111110110111 1011010001001011010 00 010101010101101010 10101001001010010110 1010 10001 11000101111101100 0101010101 11010011010000101011 0111000101100100010 011111010111111 11001 1111110 1101011010110111 0101001011011100010 1110101110 1101101101101000101 111101111100101 1011101110111010111 010010101011001 11101100010111 11111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, arisen, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase nymphs connects the lines.
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- summary of The Nymphs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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