This is an analysis of the poem The Stranger that begins with:
The restaurants on hot spring evenings
Lie under a dense and savage air....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXacX adad ebfX ghaX ahhX fdXd agag cdhd Xigi aigi aeXb Xgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110110 110011101 1111010100 01010101 01010100100 0101000101 0101100100 11011000 110010010100 100010111 1100101010 010101010101 010101100110 01010101 101001010101 011100101 11001011010 11010011 11111010100 111010111 0101010110 1010101 110001010 1110101000 1100101110100 010100101 011101100 11010111 1101010100 101001101 0101110100 1110101001 1010101010 01010001 010101010 01010101 011010111010 1110100101 1101101011 1010100111 11101000010100 11100100101 1111011010 0110111 1101010100 1001111010 1111011100 11010101 0111010010 01011101 111111010 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words above, and, like, her are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Stranger;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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