This is an analysis of the poem Corinne’s Last Love-Song that begins with:
How beautiful, how beautiful you streamed upon my sight,
In glory and in grandeur, as a gorgeous sunset‐light!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccbb bbddeebbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001100110111 01010011010100 1101001110111 11100101110101 11001100011101 101010110010101 01011100110101 10110111110011 11111111011111 11011111111101 10111101110101 11110101110001 0111011110111 1101011110101 10101010010101 11010111110101 011101001010111 01010101110111 11010100111101 11110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 571
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, i, not, on, dream are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, as, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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