This is an analysis of the poem The Magi that begins with:
NOW as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111110011 0111010101011 0111010011001 011101011101 1111010100111 111111100111 1011001000101 01010010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Magi;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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