This is an analysis of the poem You Enchant Me that begins with:
Enchant me,
Even with my eyes closed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC XdXXXb ABCED ceEDXX ABCdbaXdaABCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,5,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 100111 11 1001 1111001 01101101 11 0010001 11000010 011 100111 11 1111011 111101111 01111 111101100 1111011 111101111 1101111 1101111010 011 100111 11 111110 111010 11111011 111111101111 1111101110101 011 100111 11 11111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, you, know are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, how are repeated.
The author used the same word enchant at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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- summary of You Enchant Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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