This is an analysis of the poem Nirvana that begins with:
Through seas of dreams and seas of phantasies,
Through seas of solitudes and vacancies,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab cccb aaab dddb eeeb fffb cccb eeeb gggb hhhb iiib fffb jjjb kkkb lllb cccb aaab kXkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110100 11010001100 1111010001 1101010 1101010101 0111010010 1011010101 1101010 1111110101 1111011101 1101110001 01001010 1111010101 1111111111 1111111101 1111010 1111111111 1110111111 1101010101 1101010 0101111101 1111010111 1111111101 1110010 1111001101 1111101111 1111110101 1010010 1101010101 1110111101 1111000101 1101010 1111011111 1101111101 110100011 1101010 1101010001 1111001101 0111111101 1101010 1101010001 1101110101 0100010101 1111010 1111010101 1101110101 11001111101 1111010 11001111101 11001010101 11001010101 1111010 1101010111 1111111101 1101110101 1111010 1111010101 1111111111 1101010101 0111010 1111111111 11100101101 1101110001 1111010 1011110100 0101010111 11001011111 1100010 0101011111 1011001100 0101010111 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; seas, of, through, and, i, nor, my, o, rise are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, i, and, o 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 nirvana at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Nirvana;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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