This is an analysis of the poem From “myrtis” that begins with:
FRIENDS, whom she look’d at blandly from her couch
And her white wrist above it, gem-bedew’d,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcXXadeXdXcfbedf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110001 1011010110 01000100111 010111001 1100111101 1111010010 1001010111 1001010011 1011110111 0101111111 1101010110 1100011101 0101110101 111100111001 00110100111 1111010101 10011110101 0101110111 11010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 844
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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- summary of From “myrtis”;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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