This is an analysis of the poem Mystic Shadow that begins with:
Mystic shadow, bending near me,
Who art thou? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcacba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 111 111 111001 10011011010 11 1111110 11111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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