This is an analysis of the poem A Question Answered that begins with:
I saw the lark at break of day
Rise from its dewy bed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd eeee abab fcfX eXeX fbcb ecec ghgh gigi jkjk XXbX XdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 100101 11010001 10010100 110101101 110101 11111011 011101 11010101 1100001 11010101 100101 11111101 110001 10011101 110101 100100111 101101 1100001001 1001010 11110001 010011 100010101 110101 11010101 11001001 110000101 0100101 11010101 000101 11111111 011101 01111101 1000101 110101001 010101 11010101 110001 11010101 1101011 11111101 110101 11100001 101101 000100110 110110 11011101 110100 11100100 101111 10111111 0101100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Question Answered;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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