This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Tempest that begins with:
Stern eagle of the far north-west,
Thou that bearest in thy grasp the thunderbolt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXcbaX XbcdXXbbaebX aXfXddabgaX cXhgXeiccX bXfheiciX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,12,11,10,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111 11100110101 111010110010 100100110100010 0101011 0101011010010010 1010011010101101 11011111 110100110 111011010 11111100111101 1110100010 01011001010 111101010 111110010010 11101011010101 01010100010101 10110010 01001011001 11111110001 11100100110 1110111010010 111011010100101 1110110111101 101011011010 11101100010 11111010010100 101001010 101001011 101110001001 111111011 1111010100110 01011111010 010111101 0101111101 0100101001 110100110 1010010011 11010011 10101100100010 011111010100011010 111010100110 1000111010 1110100110 1111111010 110001111 1100110101 111001111 101100010000110 111001010101 1000111110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; thou, of, thy, and, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, amidst, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word kennar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Song Of The Tempest;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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