This is an analysis of the poem The Dark Companion that begins with:
There is an orb that mocked the lore of sages
Long time with mystery of strange unrest; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fbfb gXge fafa aaaa Xbcb hfhf cici XdXd jeje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101010 1101000101 01111101010 1101000101 11110101010 1001110001 11011101010 1101010101 11000111010 1101000101 11010101010 11100010101 11110100010 1111010101 01010101010 1101010101 11010101010 1110010110 01010011010 1101110101 110101001011 1110001111 11010111011 1001010011 11010111010 10001010111 11010111010 1101010101 11001111100 1101111101 11100101010 1101010101 110100010010 11001010101 010010101010 1101000111 11110100110 11001110011 11110100010 1101000101 11010111010 1111110101 11000101100 1011010101 01110101111 1111111111 110111001011 1100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long 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, oh, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no, the, oh, a are repeated.
The author used the same words oh, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Dark Companion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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