This is an analysis of the poem Three Island Songs that begins with:
AFTER the wind in the wood,
Peace, and the night. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebebfdfd gXgXX haha hihi jajaXgbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,5,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001 1101 1001101 1 1001101 10111 1001101 1001 1001101 1101 1001011 1 1001101 1011 1101001 11 11011001010111010 01010111010101 11111101111010 10110010110111 11 100101010111010 101101010101001 111001111101010 1101010010101 11101011110110 011101010101 1001010101110 011111 11111011110 111011111111 01010110101010 1011110001 11111011111010 11101010111 010111110101010 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , why are repeated.
The author used the same word after 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 is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of Three Island Songs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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