This is an analysis of the poem The Awakening that begins with:
God made that night of pearl and ivory,
Perfect and holy as a holy thought... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dbdb cbcb cXcX ebXb dXdf gfgX dddX XddX hdhd diXi dfdf eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011100 0111010101 1001011100 011101 111111010010 01110101001 0110101010 100101 1101111111 0101010001 1101010001 100111 01010101010 0101010111 10111001010 011111 11111101110 1100110111 110010101010 1111100 1101111101 1001010011 1101011100 111100 11010101010 0101010111 10110111010 111110 01110101010 11010111110 01110101010 0111100 111110010010 1101110101 01011111110 0101110 01010101100 1111111111 1111111111 1111110 1101110101 0111000101 11010101001 110111 11011101010 1011010001 01110101110 011101 10111111110 11111111010 11111111110 0011110 10110111111 1111110001 110010111111 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, wild, whose, down, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Awakening;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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