This is an analysis of the poem Memory that begins with:
The tangled twilight of your hair
Blew soft against my face,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXb cdcXd efeXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01011011 110111 11011101 0101 1001 01010101 011101 1100101 0101 0101 01111101 111101 11010111 1101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Memory;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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