This is an analysis of the poem The Red Bridge that begins with:
THE ARCHES of the red bridge
Are stronger than ever: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac cX dXceccXe eadee caXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,8,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100011 110110 01000101 10111 1111010001 0101001 111110001 01011 10110010 11111 01001 110011001 1110111 011010 11110 01011 1110100101 01000110 1011 10101001 1010101 10101 101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Red Bridge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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