This is an analysis of the poem The Season that begins with:
And must I wear a silken life,
Hemmed in by city walls?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe bgXg hbib diji bgXg bhdh ebibkgcg diei elal bmbm bbdb cjXj jegeXkefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 101101 11111101 110011 11010101 110001 01001111 010111 11010101 110101 11011111 1011101 11111101 11101110 11011101 10111010 11010111 1110111 111111001 111101 010100001 1010101 01001001000 1010100 101100001 110001 01110111 111101 11010101 111101 11010101 111111 11010101 010111 10110101 1011101 11010111 1001001 11111111 111101 11110111 0100101 101111101 1010101 001010001 0010101 0010101001 1011101 11110101 110101 110100101 0110111 11010101 110111 0111110111 1100101 01010111 11111 1010110101 1011001 110100111 010011 101010111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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, for, in, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same words i, such at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Season;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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