This is an analysis of the poem A Voice From The Town that begins with:
I thought, in the days of the droving,
Of steps I might hope to retrace, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababcbccdcdefXf gdgdcXcX gegebhbhgegeiiii XjXjfXfc kakalklk eieibfbf bebeimim
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,16,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010 01111001 0010011010 11011011 0011111010 001101101 110010010 01001001 1110010010 11001101 1011111010 01111011 010111110 11011001 110011110 11101001 1110011010 01010001 1010011110 11011111 1011010011 11011011 1111111111 110011010 11110111010 11001001 1010111010 11011101 110010110 11001001 111110010 01011001 110111110 11001101 10110100110 111001001 1010110110 11111101 1110010001 110101001 0010111110 101010011 111011000 111001011 1011111010 1101011100 1110010010 011001001 1110011011 01011001 1011010111 01001101 1011011010 01101101 1110111110 11111001 1011011110 11001011 010110010 01001001 1010010010 101011001 1011011010 101101101 1010011010 101101101 1110011010 001101101 1110110010 01001101 1010010010 01111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of A Voice From The Town;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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