This is an analysis of the poem The Images Alone that begins with:
Scarlet as the cloth draped over a sword,
white as steaming rice, blue as leschenaultia,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXcX c aaXbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1010111001 11101111000 110101001101 01010010100101 1101011101 0110010101 1101011101 10110101010 01111001 0111110111 100100101100 111101100111 1100100110001 111010100010 1100111110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
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- summary of The Images Alone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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