This is an analysis of the poem The Mirror Speaks that begins with:
Where the bells peal far at sea
Cunning fingers fashioned me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccdddeeccffggaahhXdff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1010101 1110111 111001 11111101 10011001 100100101 1111111 0111101 1010101 1110101 10111101 1110001 1010101 1011111 1110111 11100101 1111101 1011101 1111101 1010101 001001011 00111100 1110101 1010101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 796
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; never, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, long are repeated.
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- summary of The Mirror Speaks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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