This is an analysis of the poem The Singer that begins with:
Did you attend? He sang by grove ripe -
The bard of love, the singer of his mourning....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbac dXXdc effeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010111111 01010100010 11010101010 011101001 0101 0101010101 01010100010 010101010100 0101100101 0101 101111011 0101010001 1001110111 1101000101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words did, the are repeated.
The author used the same word did at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Singer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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