This is an analysis of the poem The Sphinx that begins with:
Yellowish-grey sand, soft at the top, hard, grating below… sand without
end, where-ever one looks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bb XXX cd cXaeXeX b ad b XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,2,7,1,2,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110111001101 111011 10101010010101110001 1000101 111111010110100 0101001011111110 11011001010011 101111110101101001 10101101111 1111110001010010 11110011111110 111111111011111 111110101011010 101001110101001000 10110011110111010 10 1111111111101 1111100111101111 11010011 1101100 01010101010100111001 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; those, they, and, of, too are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Sphinx;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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