This is an analysis of the poem Southern Counties that begins with:
No bangs at night? No terrors in the air?
No neighbours dead—or buried—in the dawn?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110001 1101110001 1101010101 0111010011 0010110101 1101110101 1001110001 0001110111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- summary of Southern Counties;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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