This is an analysis of the poem Invocation that begins with:
Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath
Chokes, and through drumming shafts of stifling death ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgfgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010011111 11110101001 11001010101 10011111111 1111011101 01001110101 01010101010 110101111010 1011011101 01110101111 1111010011 1101010011 1011010101 11010111011 0100110110 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, and are repeated.
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- summary of Invocation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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