This is an analysis of the poem Immortality that begins with:
In Sleeping Beauty's castle
the clock strikes one hundred years...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcabdefadgXhca ecidibbhXahfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 0111100 101001001001 110100010 1110111 011110 10110001 010101 0010111 0110101 10011 0101010 10101011 0101101 01001010 11000111 1011101 0010011 1111010 110111 010110101 100100101 110101010 10101101 10110 000101 11101101 11011001 010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; in is repeated.
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- summary of Immortality;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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