This is an analysis of the poem The Equilibrists that begins with:
Full of her long white arms and milky skin
He had a thousand times remembered sin. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcX ddee ffgg ffhh ffii jjhh cckk lldd mmii fXhh ffbb bbjj XXhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001111101 1101010101 01001010101 10010111100 1101001100 0111110101 1111110001 11001001010 10010111011 101010011001 0101010101 0111110111 1101010101 01110110101 11110111010 10110101110 1000011111 10010101001 111110111 0101010111 01000111010 10011100110 11010101011 10110010111 11111101001 00110010100 10011111011 101101110101 1101110111 0101011101 1101111011 1101011101 1011011101 1101010101 0101110011 1110011111 11110011111 0101000101 110101011001 1111010001 0101111100 1111001100 1111111101 100011100101 1101010101 01010010101 1011110111 0101011100 11110101001 11011100111 11001011101 1111010111 101 1000111011 1110001101 100011010011 1011001100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, from, honor, each, your are repeated.
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- summary of The Equilibrists;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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