This is an analysis of the poem The Eagle And The Dove that begins with:
SHADE of Caractacus, if spirits love
The cause they fought for in their earthly home... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX efef gdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010000101 0111101101 0101010101 11110000101 11011111001 01010100101 0101010101 11010101010 0111010101 1101110011 010110001001 1101010111 0101000101 11001111101 1101110011 01001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; of is repeated.
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- summary of The Eagle And The Dove;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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