This is an analysis of the poem An Idyll that begins with:
You stay for a while beside me with your beauty young and rare,
Though your light limbs are as limber as the foal's that follows the mare;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aABB ccdd eeaXXaABB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110110111 1111111010111001 1111110111110 1110100101111001 001001010111101 101001111101101 111110011011101 0101000100010101 1111010111111 01110111010001 10010011111101 110011100111010 11110110110111 1111111010111001 1111110111110 1110100101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, of 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 An Idyll;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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