This is an analysis of the poem Out Of Sight that begins with:
They held a polo meeting at a little country town,
And all the local sportsmen came to win themselves renown. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbb XXXb XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101010101 11010101010101 11110001111101 1101010111111000 11111111111101 01100101111101 01111101010101 01110111110101 11111111010111 110101011101010 0111110100110000110 11010101110101 11101101010110 01011101010101 11110111010011 1110010011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sight at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Out Of Sight;
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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