This is an analysis of the poem A Lecture Upon The Shadow that begins with:
Stand still, and I will read to thee
A lecture, love, in love's philosophy.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbccbdddaa aacceffeaaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 0101010100 11101111 1011111 0101110101 1101010111 111111 1011011101 11110101 01001111 0111111111 1111010101 1011001101 01111011 1111110101 1010101 1011101 0101011111 0111110001 011101 1101110101 01011101 11110101 1111010101 1001011101 1010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Lecture Upon The Shadow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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