This is an analysis of the poem The Paphian Venus that begins with:
With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,
Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dXdaee Xfgfbh ij ijaa kXXdlX jXjalX djdjee jejekk dXdXll memejj fbfbcXXgjgjhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,2,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110101 010101101 1111011101 1111010011 1001010101 0101010101 1111011101 00110101000 0101010011 1011000100 1100011111 1010010111 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101000101 01110101001 0101001100 0100010111 1101010001 11010000101 1101010111 1001010101 10001000100 1101010101 0111010101 0111010111 1001010111 1111100101 10011101010 1111011101 11001101000 1111110101 1101110101 1101111001 11010111100 1101010100 0101010111 1101010011 01001010100 11111001001 10100101011 1111011101 1101000101 01111100101 0101000111 01100100111 1101010001 1111010001 0001010101 1111011101 010110100 1111110101 1001000111 1101010111 0111001101 0111100001 0111000101 1111001111 1111110111 1111010111 01001011010 0101011111 0101010101 1111101111 01110111100 11011001001 1001011111 0101010101 1101011101 1101011100 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; her, and, of, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of The Paphian Venus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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