This is an analysis of the poem The Comet that begins with:
I come in every age,
I come again and again. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbCdeXebfgh XhiXjddhklh dmenj bbdelioimfpdX anbedbeXX hindAbCg eibdh Xeb fhlpkjd mclmdanXe Xnmhm iobXXlgi nki ibkglXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,5,13,9,8,5,3,7,9,5,8,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1101101 11111011010 11010101 0101010011 1110101010 010101 11010100100010 0101010010 101110110010 10010 11010010101 100100100 111011101 11011111 0111010 10000100100111 1101010101 0010100 110100100101 111010101 11001000100100 110100101 01011101 01111 11010110 1101111 0001010 11110010 1110010 1111110111010 1110110 11101 111101011 1101 11001 1111011010101 111111100 1110101 11101010 00101 0110111 011111100 1110101 11101101010 0001011001 1101010 0010110 111001010110101 0101 10010100 11111111 11010100110 11111001 1101001 0011111011010 11010101 01010100110 1101010010 1100011011 010010110001 100111110 11001011001 111111 1101011010 1000101011001 10110100 11101101 11101 10101011 01001001 101010110111 111111001 101100101001 00101 110010001 1000010101 1011111 111110101 0111101 101011110 10010 11110010 0100100011 101110110101 0111000100100 1001001101 1 1110110 10101011010 110110 0100101111 1110101 11110110 101010101 101101001001011 1111111 10001111010101 01100010011 100010 11001 10010101010 01010111 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i, come, of, and, in, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, therefore, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines creation is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words hells, child at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Comet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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