This is an analysis of the poem Stars that begins with:

And must I deem you mortal as my kind,
O solemn stars, that to man's doubtful mind... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccbbeeffggfhhggiidd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110111 1101101101 1111101101 1101010101 01000111001 10101010110 1111011101 1011011101 1111110101 1110010101 11110010111 00110101010 0111110111 1111110111 1010110101 11111111001 1100011101 10100110111 0101110101 10010110101 010001000101 1101110101 1111110111 0111111101 01001000101 1111110101 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 209
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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  • summary of Stars;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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