This is an analysis of the poem The North Star that begins with:
I was contented with the warm silence,
Sitting by the fire, book on knee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdbabeaeebefffffegge acaXhcha XXfebeb eichigcg ecgecdXhd ajhgfgffkhk eecchheecech gchbXegecddegebXjbgjjjgbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,8,7,8,9,11,12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000110 101010111 11010001101 100101 10110101100 001111 1101000110 110101 10111111 10100010 1011 01010011 0101010011001 011001 1111110101 101101101000 0111000100 011011 11010001 100101110100 110101101 0101010101 111101 110110 100111110101 01011001 11010110 111101 1001010101 10101 1011101100 100110 110110 100010 1110 011101 1111010101 1101111101 1111 111001 10111010 1001011011 1101 11111001001 111001 110111 10101001 111001 110101100100 01100101001 1101010011 100100101 11001001 101011 101101 111110 1010101010 11101011 10100101 010100101 110101 1011110101 10001010100 100101 0100010011 010101 110110 0101 10010101 000101 000100001 1010001 100111 10010010111 010101 1101001101 1100010011 1111 1101 1101 1111 1111 111111 1111010011 1101011010 110101 11111111 1100010101 111101 110111 01110010101 0111010011 1010011011 1111 10111 01111111 1001011011 110011 010111 0111111111 011111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 102
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, of, to, i, and, thou, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for, because are repeated.
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- summary of The North Star;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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