This is an analysis of the poem The Bridges that begins with:
Skies the gray of crystal.
A strange design of bridges, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXadX bbbX dee cbdbdb XffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,3,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 0101010 1111 1001010110001 1110010 01010100001 111111101 1001111 010110 1110010 10011 101100 1011 1101101 11001 1111011 1001001 1100100 111001 10010010 100101 0100111 1111001 0111001 001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Bridges;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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