This is an analysis of the poem Earth that begins with:
A midnight black with clouds is in the sky;
I seem to feel, upon my limbs, the weight... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefghffgecdaedi bceeehjjkebaajleaacjgb XfXeXimicenegXeeegeieabeXebn nhidgoXeegeedciebc fbkbXniolemclec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,22,28,18,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010001 1101011101 0011011101 10101010111 1001011101 0101010101 10010010001 1101011101 1101011001 1101110101 1111000101 0101011101 1101010101 1101000101 0101110111 11000101001 1111010101 0001010101 1111110101 1111111111 110100010101 1011011100 01010100110 1101010101 1001110111 1111010101 10111101110 1001110001 0111010101 1101100101 1101111111 1101111101 01011101111 1001011111 1011111101 10111111101 0111011101 0101011101 01010011001 0111110111 11101010101 1101010011 10010011111 110010000101 0011010111 0100111101 1111010001 0100011111 10011010101 1001010111 0110011100 01011101001 1101001101 01010101000 1101111111 1011011101 1101010101 1101011111 0111010101 100110101 1011010101 1001100001 100010101 0101010101 1001010101 1111011111 0101110111 1001011100 1111010100 1111000101 1100010111 1011010111 0100110101 1100110101 001101000 10110101001 11001011101 1101001111 0101010101 1101010100 0100010111 1011100101010 1101000101 0101110111 10010010111 01110111010 1111110101 0101010001 01011001010 1011011111 0101010011 1011111100 11010100101 1100010111 11010100101 01010011001 1101010101 0010100101 1001011101 1101010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 880
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 101
- 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; in, no, of, thy, with, and, i, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
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- summary of Earth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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