This is an analysis of the poem Milestones that begins with:
Gay balloons and coloured streamers,
Gliding figures, footsteps light,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdeddfggf fbebhiXiadjjjd jkjkfigicdffdd eklkjmjmXiaijbfb fgXgcblbXhfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,14,14,16,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 1010111 1001111010 1010101 10111110 1010001 10101010 1110101 10111010 1010101 101110 11110 1111001 11101010 0011101 100001010 0010101 10101011 1010101 101001010 10010101 101011001 1011111 101110 101110 101110 11101 10101010 1111101 11101010 1010101 10111010 1110101 00111010 1010101 10101110 1010111 101010 101110 1010111 111111 111010010 1000101 10111010 1010011 10101010 0010111 10111010 1011101 00101010 1110111 1110100110 11100111 10101010 00100101 10101010 11100101 10101110 1010101 10101110 1010101 00111010 1110111 10111110 1010111 10101010 1011101 10101010 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 69
- 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, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words goes, on are repeated.
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- summary of Milestones;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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