This is an analysis of the poem Maya that begins with:
That I should make much of myself and turn it on all sides,
thus casting colored shadows on thy radiance ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX Xbc aXXX acaX cXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111011110111 110101111100 10110 110010001110 1110110101001 01110101101001 01010101101010101 1101111111101 1111 010110101 01111101000100010 001001101 0101101001010001 10011101010 01100111110001 0010111101010 1110100101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, of are repeated.
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