This is an analysis of the poem Eidolons that begins with:
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights
That flash on lone morasses, the quick wind ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdeecfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111011111 1111010011 11011011101 0100010101 1111000101 1101010001 0101011111 10110100101 1001011101 1100010101 0101001101 10001110111 01010011001 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Eidolons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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