This is an analysis of the poem An Exhortation that begins with:
Chameleons feed on light and air:
Poets' food is love and fame: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcddcc ececfddff ghghiaaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 110111 0001101 1011101 0110111 1110111 1011001 10001001 10101 1011011 110010 1001101 0010101 1101001 1101101 1010101 11010101 1101 111101110 010111001 011001010 1011111 1111101 1110101 1000101 1000101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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- summary of An Exhortation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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