This is an analysis of the poem The Miracles that begins with:
I sent a message to my dear --
A thousand leagues and more to Her --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef egeg gdgd hdhd idid ddddXefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010011 01011100 01110101 11010100 01110111 11110111 11110111 01010111 10011111 01111101 11010111 11010101 11011101 11010100 11010101 11010100 01110111 010111101 11110101 11110101 11010101 11111111 01110101 110100111 11110111 11110111 11010101 11010111 11010101 1101101101 01110111 11011101 11011111 11111101 11010101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, it, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Miracles;
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