This is an analysis of the poem The Ecstasy that begins with:
Where, like a pillow on a bed
A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacbdbdbXbefeXeaaaaghghXijidbdbbkbklklklalafXfkjejelflfbdbdakaklglgeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 76,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01011101 0100101 11110101 11010010 001111001 11110101 11011101 110001111 11010111 11001101 1111010 11110101 01010100 11100111 01111011 111101011 11100111 11011100 11110101 01011101 11110101 11010111 01010101 11111111 01111101 11010101 11110111 01001100 11111111 11100111 11111101 111100101 10011111 11111101 11111011 01010001 01010101 11011111 10011101 11010101 100000011 110011111 01010001 11110111 01110111 111000111 11111101 11011111 11011110 1011101111 010000101 11010111 01011101 10110101 11101101 1110100111 11010101 11000111 10010101 11110001 10111101 01110101 11011111 11110101 101010100 11111101 10110101 101011111 11110111 11000111 11010001 10110111 11010101 11111111 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2777
- Average number of words per stanza: 487
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our, he, we, and, us, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, we are repeated.
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- summary of The Ecstasy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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