This is an analysis of the poem My Village that begins with:

The mountains rich in stone,
The meadows full of grass,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc Xdbd ccba aeXa faXe Xade aaeX aXecXfaaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101 011101 010101 0100010 0100010 0111011 1101010 1101010 100010 0111110 0100010 0111010 100011 101010 0101010 11101110 100011 001010 101011 111010 101010 101010 100111 101010 111010 110011 101010 1101011 1010010 101010 1110010 111110 101110 101010 111010 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; women is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word women at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word women at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase women connects the lines.

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  • summary of My Village;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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