This is an analysis of the poem Merops that begins with:
What care I, so they stand the same,—
Things of the heavenly mind,—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bcbc adad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110100 10010010 110100101 10101 11011101 11010100 11110101 1010100 11010101 1100101 110010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Merops;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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