This is an analysis of the poem Paris and Helen that begins with:

He called her: golden dawn
She called him: the wind whistles...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa XX XbcX XXba aX acX XbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,4,2,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 1110110 1101001 1111010 1101001 10101010 101011 1101101 111111 110100 1011010 10010111 110010 111110 11011 110111 111100 11001101 1100 11110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; called is repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Paris and Helen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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