This is an analysis of the poem The Mirror that begins with:
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Where is all the beauty that hath been?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcebdc fggfhXgghggffg eieibbjjbekke kekelilil bbcXcgXhXh llglgmeccmmaagbgbXfkXbfkb bggfbgffbbXkggeegeg mkmkfcXhhccllggkkbbnnddeemm Xkekkekke kckccckeec bfbfbooggoggmXmlgkhkghkffdkdkXfkh hlhlbblXlpgppmgfmgfgfcfXfcfXkkfX kkgkfXkXghqXkqgfggfgffXeerriieer
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,14,13,9,10,25,19,27,9,10,33,32,42,23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 101010110 101 11101110010 11111010101 11101110001 1001111011101 101010001010 11 000101010101 1010111 11100111 111010101 010111010101 101000 110010011101 101 010101010011 1000110101 101011011 10101000111 1001010101 1010101 11010111 010101110 11011101 01000101010 10000011101 101010100 1111100101 0101000101 010111110111 111100101 1110101 1010011 11010101 1010101 1110101 1110001 1010101 0101000101 010010101011 01010001001 10110011101 1011011010 1011001101 0101000101 0101000101 1111 110011110111 0111110001 110101100 100101001 1101 0111000100 1011111 11111101 11111101011 11010010011 10111 101100 110110010001 1111010011 1110110101 111111 1111010101001 1111010101 1111011101 1111011111 1001011101 110101 0100100010101 1111000 1001010111 10110001101 111011101 001001101 101010101 101010111 101110101 11111111 11111111 11000101 11100101 10010110 101011001 1011111 111010101 1101001001 1001110101 10010101100 1001110101101 111011101 011011100 101000111 1001010111 1111010111 1110101 1011101010101 111101 1101001 1111001 111101 01011100 01001101 00100100 11100101 101110100 1010101 0010101 1111101101 1111010111 00101010111 0101001100 01011010101 01010100101 001000101010 10010100110 1101110101 11010000101 11010100110 101100111010 1011110101 0111000111 10100110111 0101000101 1 101010101 1101 011010101 101110010100 10101011101 11111011101 100110100 01 1101010001 101 10111010101 00100101 10101010101 101 111010111 10101 100010101 101010101 001110101 111000101 111100001 0010110001 1011101 1011100111 10111010011 000010101 0011110111 1011010101 1111011101 111101101001 0100111 11010001100 0100111 111011 0101110001001 1101000100 1111010101 101101 1111110001 110101 110001110011 1111011111 1100011101 1001001001010 010110 010001110 0101010111 10010100 0100001 010111011101 1011110001001 1000101 1110101 1010011 1110111 1110101 1010101001 10101 10001111100 0010101 1010101 101001010 101100101 111111101 111010101 10011001 1111111 0101001 1010001 11011101 00101101 1011111100 101110101 10100010111 1001101000 1000101 101110101 111010101 00101011100 1101011111 010010111001 1111110101001 1111001100 11111111 1111011111 101111111 101010011 101001101 100010100 100010101 100010100 00110011001 10011010001 10011111 1011011100 0011001101 1011110101 11001111101 1000110111 1111011011 0101011111 0101010101 10110101101 01000100011 11011001101 1110010010 11001010011 1111011111 0111010111 11000100111 010101110001 1100110100 11010111001 1001011101 1101010111 10011101101 10110101100 1111010101 1001110011 010010001101 1011010011 0111010100 1011011100 1101010101 1011011101 100110001 11100101 11111111 11111111 111111110 11110101 111111010 1110101 1001001010 11110001 010101001 01011111001 110011100100 11111111100 1010010010 110011010 010111010 11010101 00010101 1010111 10010101 10011101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 753
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 276
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, as, void, like, of, and, hast, thou, not, faces, it, for, peace, in, that, has, our, i, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, like, the, hast, faces, amid, shall, for, o, out, thou, i, though are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase peace connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Mirror;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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