This is an analysis of the poem The Judgment Of Paris that begins with:

Where waving Pines the brows of Ida shade,
The swain young Paris half supinely laid,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc aaddcceeddffXecc ffbbaaccffffdXdd ggaaaXeeaaeebX hhffcceecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,16,14,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 01110110001 10111110001 1101000101 1111010001 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1101111101 11010000101 0101010101 0101010101 1001110101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1011110101 0101010101 0110010101 1111010101 1001010101 0100010101 1111010101 01110100111 1111110101 1111010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010101 1111001101 0111110101 0111010101 1101010111 1101110101 1101000101 11010101010 1101110101 0101010101 11010101001 0110010101 0111010101 0101010101 0101011101 11110101010 1001011101 0111000111 1101010101 01001110101 0101010101 1101000101 1101010101 0011010101 1001110101 0101010100 1111010111 0101010101 0101010101 1101111101 0111011111 0101110101 0101110101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, her, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Judgment Of Paris;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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