This is an analysis of the poem Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions that begins with:
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,
Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaded ffbbddbbddbbebggcc aahhiibbjjddjjggcckkaaeeXallcc ggaa XaggeeggccccccbbmmiiddcciiXgnnddccbb ddkkhh ooiijjffcXnn bbggjjbbiiaaggggggggaaff bbiibbgg bbbbbbhh nndd ppnnggddgg bbccggccff ggddppppgg ppff cceennqqnnccoo ffhhbbhh ddqqpp hhppccdddd a
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,18,30,4,36,6,12,24,8,8,4,10,10,10,4,14,8,6,10,10,10,8,10,8,6,10,20,16,8,14,10,20,14,4,4,4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011100011 10001011111 11001011001 1101010111 1101110101 0111111101 1001110101 11110010101 1011010111 1101001001 1101001101 101101110 1 11111100101 010111100111 1001010101 0111110101 1101010101 1011100101 1001011101 1101100101 1010011101 0011011101 0101010101 110011000101 010111110 10111010101 0111110101 1001010001 1111001001 1001110001 1111010101 0111011011 1011011101 1111010101 1011010101 11010001001 1111001001 1101111101 1011010101 1111000101 1011111001 1011000101 10110111001 1111010101 10110100101 1101110101 1011010111 0101010101 11010001010 11010001010 1101010111 1011010101 10110101001 10110100101 10110101010 01110101001 1011011101 1011010101 111010111 10010000101 10010100111 1001010101 1001111101 1011110101 10011111010 1101011011 1111011101 1011000101 1111010101 1111001101 11110111001 0101010101 0101010111 10010001001 11001110101 1111110101 1101010101 1011110101 1101110111 1111010101 01010001101 1111001111 101101100001 1101011111 1101010111 1111000101 1011110101 1101111111 10011111001 0111111101 1101010111 0111110001 1111010111 1111010111 11111100111 11010000111 1011011101 1011000101 11001010101 1111011111 11011001011 1011010101 01111101010 01010101010 01010100101 1101111101 1100110101 0101010111 00011100101 10110001101 1101111101 1001010101 0011010101 11110001001 0011000101 0111000101 1011000101 11010010101 1011010101 1101010101 110010101010 01010101010 0101010111 1011010101 1101100101 10110100111 1111110101 10110011101 11010100111 0111011101 01111100101 1101110101 0101010101 0111000111 0101010101 010010100101 100100011101 1010100101 1001010111 1011000011 01011011111 11011111001 11111101101 0110010101 0101010111 10110011101 0111010111 01001100111 11001010101 0111000101 1101010001 0101011101 1111111111 1101010101 11010101001 1011010101 1011010101 1111010001 1101010101 1101010011 11010010101 01001110101 1101011101 1101010101 11010001001 11010011111 1101000101 1101001111 1101000101 0101010101 111000111 0101110101 1111010101 1111111101 1101010111 1101010101 1011010111 10100010101 1101010101 01010101001 0101011111 11001010101 1001010101 11110110111 1001110101 0101000101 1111100101 1101010110 1001011001 0101010001 0101010101 0101001001 1101000101 1001000101 1011010111 110100101 1011010101 0111011101 1001110101 1111110111 1111010101 1111010101 1001010101 0101010101 1101011001 1111010101 11001010101 11110101001 1101011001 1111110101 10010000101 1101010101 0111010111 0101010101 1001111101 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 01010100101 01010001001 1111000101 1101001101 1111010101 01010100101 10011010101 1111010101 10110010101 0101010111 1101010001 1011010001 0101000101 1011010101 1111100101 0110100111 0101110111 11110100111 0101010101 11010010100 0111010101 1101000111 01001110101 1101001101 1101110101 0101010101 11110010101 0101010101 1111010101 01010100001 0110010111 1111010101 1011110101 10110100101 1001010001 0101010111 10110100101 1111010101 0111010111 01010010101 0110000101 10110000101 10010001010 1101011101 01001011101 1101011101 11010100111 11110011001 1101100101 0101010101 1101011001 0111010111 11010000101 01001010111 1111010101 1101000101 1101011101 0101010111 1101010111 0111110111 1011011001 11010100111 1101010101 0101010101 0011010101 0101010101 01110001001 0101110101 0101010101 0111110101 1101110101 01010001001 10011010101 1101011101 011101001010 11010101010 0111010101 011010111 1011111011 0011110101 01011100010 11010001010 0101010101 1101010101 01010101001 1101010101 1001011111 1101010101 1101010111 0101000111 1101010101 010100001010 1101010111 1101110011 1101110011 0101000101 11011010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011000101 01010101001 0111010101 1111000101 1011110101 1011010001 11011001001 0101010101 0101110001 1101011101 01110010101 11001010101 1101000101 1111000101 10010011000 11100001001 0111110101 111101101 1101110101 1101010101 01010001001 0111011001 1001010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011110 0101010101 1011011101 010100001001 0101010101 1101000101 1011010111 1101010101 01010111001 1001001000111 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1011010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101101001 0101010101 0101010101 11010011101 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010101 01010010101 11110000101 100110110001 1101000110 1111010101 1101001101 11010011111 11101110101 10110010011 10110100101 1011110101 1101001101 1001010001 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010111 110100100111 1111010101 1011011011 1111010101 0101010101 1111011001 1111010101 1111010101 1101001101 1001010001 0101011111 01010101010 10010111010 01110010101 0101010101 0101010101 01001010101 1110000101 01001010101 1111110110 1101100100 1011111111 1111011101 0101010101 0101010101 1111010101 0101010101 11111101010 1111001101 1111010101 01010010011 10111100101 1101011111 11010011101 0101110001 110100111001 01010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 425
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, i, no, of, in, her, what, may, its, to, and, new, first, our, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, a, who, no, new are repeated.
The author used the same words say, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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