This is an analysis of the poem Adonis that begins with:
The gods did love Adonis, and for this
He died, ere time had furrowed his young cheek.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcacadacdaX efefegeggeehihihghgdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010110 1111110011 110011001 1111111111 0111110111 1101110101 1101110101 11110010101 0101100101 10011011011 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110111 0100011011 01011101001 1101011111 1001011101 1101011111 1101010111 1101111101 1101010001 1101110111 11111111001 1011010111 0101010101 1011111101 1001000100 110110001 1101000100 1111011101 0101010011 0101001011 1101100101 1101000101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; he is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Adonis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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