This is an analysis of the poem Thanatopsis that begins with:
To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacadebfacbffdgegdafhiXXbjijd bXiadfaaikbcfciildaabadgfii XdXXgbkhiiadidh iajlfdkXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,27,15,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110010101 01000100111 010010101010 1101010101 1100010111 0001010001 1101001101 1101100111 00110101101 1011011100 0011001111 1101010101 1101011111 1110010111 0101010101 1101010101 1011101111 0101011111 0101110011 1111110101 10001010101 1101110111 1100010101 11110101001 11010010111 0101000100 000100001001 1001011011 1001110101 1101011111 1101010101 1101011111 1101001111 01010010101 01000010100 1111010101 101101001 1111010101 1001010001 0100011011 0100100101 1101111111 1101110101 1101010101 0011010101 010101001010 11010110001 1011010111 0111011001 1100010101 0101010100 11100001001 1101011111 1011010111 11001100011 0100011101 0111011101 1111110101 0100010111 1101010111 0111000101 1111010101 1111110101 01001011111 1111010111 1111011011 0101010101 01011011111 0011001011 0101101101 1111010011 1110111100 1111110101 00100010111 01010011111 0100010101 1111010111 1001010111 11100010111 11110100001 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 890
- Average number of words per stanza: 162
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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; and, to, of, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, to are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Thanatopsis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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