This is an analysis of the poem Shadows Of His Lady that begins with:
Within the sand of what far river lies
The gold that gleams in tresses of my Love? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXa XXcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011101 0111010011 11010001001 01000111101 1100111101 0011110101 1111010110 0111001101 1101010100 1101000111 111100101 1101110111 101110110 0111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; of, and are repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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