This is an analysis of the poem To Mignon that begins with:
OVER vale and torrent far
Rolls along the sun's bright car....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab c cb dde c Ce aad c Cd bbf c cf aag c Cg h f af a e he h i gi g e cg c a gc g e gh g X cj c c kc k f gb g h bX X j gX X f le l g gcXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1010111 1110001 1111101 001 1010011 1101101 10010111 1100101 1110101 011 0010101 10100101 1111111 1110101 1011101 011 1100101 1110101 1110111 10101010 1101101 011 10011010 1001111 11101001 0010101 101000101 011 1111101 01010 11110110 010101 1111110 0101101 11111010 1101011 11001010 1101110 0111010 010111 110110010 01101001 110010110 0101101 01101110 11011101 1110101 01001001 11101001 01101001 11011010 1111101 11110110 01011011 11011010 1111011 1111010 0101001 110101100 01011001 11101110 11001001 10110110 0101001 10011110 0101011 10110010 0100101 11101101000 1100110100 11110110 11011011 010110110 010010100 11111110 01001011 01011110 11101011 11110110 1111101 11011001 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 54
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no are repeated.
The author used the same words no, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Mignon;
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- idea of the verse;
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