This is an analysis of the poem Iris that begins with:
Not how you would be thought of, your color
Being grey, silky, like a second skin, your hair...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdefXg afXXbXcegdef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010110 101101010111 100011011010 101011111010 1011110101 1101010101 01010110101 11011101001 0101101010011 010010011 111011100 110101011100 101011110010 001100111110 1110010010 110111000100 01011110111 11100111101 10111010111 011000111 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Iris;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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