This is an analysis of the poem Ecstasy that begins with:
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXde fcXgce bedgfcXXAb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001001 101010010 101001011 0100111101 11011101 010111010110 1110100111 101111001011 010101101 11101001 0101011110 0100111001 0100100110 01010 01011 11101011011 101111 1011001 1011001001 1101001001 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, front, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ecstasy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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