This is an analysis of the poem The Silver Box that begins with:
Old tales of valour fire our blood
But this, the bravest deed I know...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dece cafa Acgf chih Xjgj jheh fege agXg fheh fdcd akXk fhah fihi Xjfj ahjhXAcgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101011 10010111 01001101 110101 01010111 11110011 110101001 001101 11001111 11010101 10110101 101101 00110111 00110111 10110101 1100101 10110111 10110111 01110101 010101 01000111 01010111 11011101 0011001 010011001 11110101 110100101 110101 00110101 11010101 01111111 0101001 11110101 11010101 11110101 011101 11110101 01010101 11110101 0101101 01010101 11111101 10010101 1011001 11011101 01010100 01010101 1101100 01010101 11010101 01010111 1101001 11110101 01010101 11000101 001101 10010101 11010101 11010001 100101 11010101 111101 01011101 111101 00110111 00110111 10010101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Silver Box;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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