This is an analysis of the poem The Hearts that begins with:
The legendary muscle that wants and grieves,
The organ of attachment, the pump of thrills ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bca Xca ade cac fgh ife gdj dda cai iak ffa fdX lab fei cim lfX alm ama mXi mid aij mma hie fnn lcX mXa kjmXaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101111 01000100101 11010010100 110111001010 11010101110 110010010001 10011100101 110110101010 11000101010 100101001011 11000111111 1111101100 101110101110 111111000101 110101011110 111101011101 11010010111 111111101011 1100011111 01001011101 11110011001 0100011101 01010010101 1111110010100 11001100100010 011100101011 10110100111 000101001010 0101010111010 10001100101001 0111000101 110010001010 01010110111 10011101010 10010011101 11000101101 110010101110 0100111101 011011011 1011011111 110110110101 010101101110 0101000110010 101000101111 0010110001011 01000100010 100101010010 10110101110 10010101011 0101101010010 110100101001 01011010101 011110111111 1011000101001 01110001010 010101010110 111100110111 11101110101 110101111101 101010100100 01010100101 01110111001 11101111111 01011101110 0101011111 011111110010 00101010101 01110100001 111101110110 01110111101 110110110011 11000111010 110101100110 11010010111 1101010001 1111110111 01010110010 1101011111 10011010001 010010100111 01011011111 10111110111 1100110101 1011101101 11001101101 010101110011 1101011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; he, that, knows, and, in, on, clouds, with, two, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that, and are repeated.
The author used the same word itself 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 heart is repeated).
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- summary of The Hearts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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