This is an analysis of the poem Aquarium that begins with:
How my desires no more, alas,
Summon my soul to my eyelids' brink,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef XgXg XhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 1011011001 10011111 0111 010010111 1001000101 110100101 1001 011100101 1010100111 11010111 0101 11010111 1001001101 010010110 1101 1110111010010 100100111 111001101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 698
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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- summary of Aquarium;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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