This is an analysis of the poem The Errand that begins with:
I've been going right on, page by page,
since we last kissed, two long dolls in a cage,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba ccbbc ddeXd eeXfe ggXXg bbXXb ffhhfXeeggeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011111 1111111001 110101001011 10101101 10110111001 1111110111 1110010011 11110011001 11001110111 11011001111 11001111001 0111110111 11111001001 0011110111000 01010111011 1110111101 111101111101 1111101110100 11101011010100 11111111101 10111001011 1001011111 10110111101 10110110010000 1011110011 11010010101 11010101001 111101111010 101111010101000 101100101011 101011110010 10011010110110 01001001011 1011111010101 1011001101110 1001111010010 10110101011 110111010001 1100110001011 11111010101 11110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, have, may, he, let, our, us, by, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words have, he, let, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Errand;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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