This is an analysis of the poem Nocturne that begins with:
A disc of violet blue,
Rimmed with a thorn of fire,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaab cbcccb dadddA ebeeeb eceeXcXcacccA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101001 1001010 011100101 1100110101 010101111 0101010 110101 11010010 011100101 110100111 001010101 101001110 11011101 110111 110101111 100100111 10011011 111111 0111001 1001010 001110101 0010100111 00011111 01001010 011111 1101010 0011100101 0011101101 0011101110 01001010 11011101 110111 110101101 100100101 10011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nocturne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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