This is an analysis of the poem Eidolons that begins with:
The white moth-mullein brushed its slim
Cool, faery flowers against his knee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXa bcXcb deded fgfgf ecece hbhbhXgcgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110100101 01010111 01010100 11110011 01110101 01110101 011001110 11000101 11010101 11010101 11111101 11011101 011101101 01110101 111101010 110100101 0111001110 11011111 011101110 11011101 11000111 010100001 01010101 11011101 11011111 01111111 11111111 10011101 11110101 11111101 10110111 10010111 01111101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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 Eidolons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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