This is an analysis of the poem Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids that begins with:
Who is that man in black, walking
away from us into the distance?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc XbdXecbeeab XdXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 010100010 010111011 10010001 011010111 101111 110110 110110110 01011110 111011011 100111101 01010010 111101101 110110110 1011110101 0010010 11010101010 0010101001 11011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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