This is an analysis of the poem The Astronomer that begins with:
I only said, "When in the evening the round full moon gets
entangled among the beaches of that Dadam tree, couldn't somebody...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXbcXcXXbXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110001001111 010010100110110110 110 11111111100110100 11110101010110111 1000110 1110011011110110 010111111011101 100 111110101011101 11101101010110 11100011100110 1111111010100111 100110111110110 11100110111111 101011011101110 10 1111110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 993
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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