This is an analysis of the poem Edlesborough that begins with:
Beyond the Chiltern coast, this church:
A lighthouse in dry seas of standing corn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabb bccdd eddbb eccbf fbbaa eccXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101 0110110101 1100100101 11100111000 110110100001 01110110101 011101010101 1010101 10001110011101 1001110100101 011100001 0001010101 1101110010001 1010011101 110101100100 11111101 0111010111 0101110111 10110011101 110101010101001 0011011001 1001111101 01010100101 01010001010 101011001010 0111010101 010001011 0101011101 0110010110 010101010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines endures is repeated).
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- summary of Edlesborough;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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