This is an analysis of the poem The Three Pilgrims that begins with:
In days, when the fruit of men's labour was sparing,
And hearts were weary and nigh to break,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded Xfdf cdcd ghGh dddX aiai jdjX hehX Xkak alal hihi XaXa akak Xkak ifXX dddX alal mimi cfcf jnjn idid aoaoXghGh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010111110 110101101 01110010010 101100111 111010010010 1011100101 01011010010 110100111 1111001010 011110111 1111101110 1010110101 11111011100 0111011011 10111101110 011100111 1111111010 10101101 101101010 100100101 111001001010 1001101110 10110011010 1011011010 1111001110 101101101 1111001010 100010100 1101101110 100111010 101011010 10101101 1111001111 11010111 1111101111 10100101 11111101010 110101101 11011111010 101101110 110111010100 110100111 0101001010 0100101111 1101001110 1100100110 1010010010010 100110111 110010010110 0110111111 1010110010010 10100100111 1010100101100 01001000111 111110100100 1111111111 11111101110 11010101 10101011110 1011111111 111100110 100100111 1111101010 11100111 1101101010 10110111 110100100 10110101 1111001110 10101111 101100110 10100101 11011001110 11101111 11001001110 10100111 1111101010 100100111 0111001110 111100101 101011010 010111101 11001001010 100100101 0111001011 011100101 11111001111 100110101 1111111110 100100101 11110001110 1100100111 1111001110 100100111 111001110 1011110111 10111101010 1001011010 10110011010 1011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, ah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Three Pilgrims;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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