This is an analysis of the poem Reflection that begins with:
The light that spills through the crack in the door
Illumines only her face...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcdefc gXhXigi bjbfkac hclkgcc cfkXcgm icgmXnm foemiim clXbldf igfikXp liepcoj gdfnngf oidmaoo Xmimdef mkjgjfk mmagdmi ABdlheg Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101001 10001001 111101 0101011010 010001010 0100101 11001 10010011 1110 11 11 101010101 1111101 110111 001111 101010001 101101 1101110 101011 101 111011111 0101100101010 01010101011 111111 1011 1111011101 10101 01001 11011010 1110111 011 111110 1101 1 11 111101 1001010 101101 1 01110 1001 01 110111 0110101 10110 10101 0 110 111 11110 1111 011 110 11 10 01 1011 10101 10011 111001 0101010 10 1 110101 11010011 1100111010 00101 11010 01 1101 111 0100 111 0010 010 01 11 110110111 00 1100 1101 01110101 0101 0111101 110101 101111 101 1001 010 010 001 11001 11111 01010111 11111 1111 111 001 110100 010001 11011 11101 010 111 111 0111101001 10001001 0101010010 11101 111 11100110 01 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it, make, you, and, in, i, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words make, and, what, in, my are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, live are repeated).
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- summary of Reflection;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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