This is an analysis of the poem Rock-Crystal that begins with:
Routine-galled, dulled, by many years cumbered,
slipping halter holiday-wise,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX baXca aXXa dbed dcX ddeeff ffXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,4,4,3,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011100100 10101011 0100011 1111011110 01110110 111011110 01100110 01010101 011101101 1110011100 1010110110010 110010011100 01100101010 110101011 101011010 0001011010 1111011000101 101001010 10010 0100110101000 010100100100 101001010 1101011010 10111010010 111111010 110101011001 11010011011 100110101000 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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; from, to, in are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Rock-Crystal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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