This is an analysis of the poem Absence that begins with:
Ah, happy air that, rough or soft,
May kiss that face and stay; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXb bcdcbcXbadaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 111111 11011001 110011 110101111 111111 10011100 111111 11010111 111001 11111111 111011 10111110 100111 10111111 110101 10011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, or, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Absence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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