This is an analysis of the poem The Voice that begins with:
Safe in the magic of my woods
I lay, and watched the dying light.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd c ecefggfg hgece ha iciX gga fXXfXXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,8,5,2,4,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010011 11110101 100111000 11011111 101111010 10111101 110111110 11001101 111110 111 101010010 10110111 010101111 100100101 011111101 110110111 1010100101 11110100 011100101 011110101 10010010 110111 1100 11111011 010010101 1011011010 0100110101 10110001000 0111001011 1111111011 11011101 11110011001 11110101010 111010001010 110011101011 11110100010 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, me, you, said are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you are repeated.
The author used the same words and, the 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 me is repeated).
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- summary of The Voice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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