This is an analysis of the poem Pals that begins with:
Take a hold now
On the silver handles here,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa Xaab cbbc XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1010101 11010 1110011 11 111101 111010 1001001 111011 00111 010101 001101 01110 10111 10111011 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; house, dead are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines house is repeated).
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- summary of Pals;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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