This is an analysis of the poem Hieroglyph that begins with:
Dead peacock in the dream
The moonlight fell upon his body...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AX XX bX cX dd ea bc AeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 011101010 1000010 10101 1111 11010 011 0101 0111010 00100101100 101011 1100 010101 10101 111001 01110 01010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 45
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Hieroglyph;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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