This is an analysis of the poem The Town Of Dae that begins with:
Swains and maidens, young and old,
You to me this tale have told.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbccddBb XedffXgagga ffbbffXXhffaaBfb bbffddfffXeb baaffBhb aaXBXb Xeaaiiggjjaah kkbXXBbb XeedXkdbXXXBlb Xefff ffbbkffkggffbbhmmXaaBXb XdXk nnaXeaddaallbXbbBmb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,11,16,12,8,6,13,8,14,5,23,4,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1010111 1010101 1010001 1010101 1111101 1011101 1010101 101101 1010110 1111100 1010101 1010001 1110101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1011101 1011111 0010101 1010101 1010111 1010101 0010101 1010111 1110101 0110100 01111110 1011111 1011101 11010101 1010101 1010101 101101 1010111 11010101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1011001 1010111 1010111 10110001 01010101 1110101 1010100 1010111 1010101 1110101 1110110 0011111 1110001 1010101 101101 0010111 1111100 1010101 1010011 1110101 101101 11101010 1011101 1010100 1110101 1011001 1010101 1110001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1110001 1011001 1011001 1010101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1001101 101101 1011101 1010101 1010100 01010101 10010101 1101101 101010110 1011101 1011101 1010101 1110111 11100101 1001111 101101 0011111 1111100 1010100 1010101 11000101 1000101 1110111 1000101 1010101 0010001 1010101 10011101 0010101 1110101 1010001 1011101 11010111 1110101 110111101 1010011 1010111 1011101 1110101 1111101 1010111 1010101 1010101 101101 10101110 1101111 10111000 10101010 1011110 1010001 10101010 00111010 1010001 1010100 10101001 1111101 0011011 0110111 1111111 10010101 1010101 1011101 1010001 1011000 1010101 1010101 101101 0011101 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 149
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, thus, any, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, sense are repeated.
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- summary of The Town Of Dae;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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