This is an analysis of the poem The Arras Road that begins with:
I
The early night falls on the plain... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcc ccbb ddaX Xeecc ffgg hhii ggbb XhhXX jjaX kkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 01011101 01110001 11111101 01010101 10011101 01110111 11110101 11111101 111111010 101111010 11111101 11011100 1 11111111 11010101 10011111 101011101 11110101 01100101 11111101 11110101 10111101 01111101 100111010 0001111010 11110111 11110101 01110101 11010111 1 10111101 100101001 110101111 01001110 01110101 100010101 10011101 11010110 110101011 10010111 11011101 00010001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 word i is repeated.
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- summary of The Arras Road;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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