This is an analysis of the poem Cupid's Funeral that begins with:
BY his side, whose days are past,
Lay bow and quiver!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcdcdcd efefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 11110 1011101 10010 1110111 11010 1011111 11111 1111111 10011 1010111 10111 101111 10010 1011101 11010 1010101 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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- summary of Cupid's Funeral;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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