This is an analysis of the poem Blaney's Last Directions that begins with:
It is usual
for people in this country... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefg hidjkc ggXiciefai iegggehjgXbljla ieiakcaicgkh eXbgghbeiclXf gXacgge XjlXic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,10,15,12,13,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100 1100010 1001001 11001010010100 001001 10 1011 1 00110011110 11010110 10010011 1 111 101001 10100010 00110011 0100 1101010 110001001 111010 01010010001010 101 100000100 010 1010111010 1010100100 1001 1111001 0011 01101 1101010010 111 0010 01001 01000 01100001 1100110010 01111101 1110 00110011010 0111010 11010110 01001100 110101011 1011010101 011010 0010010 0101 1010101 1101 1010 1100110100 010110110 111001001100 01110010 110010 111 101000100 001100100101010 1101100 11 11 1100 1110101101 11110100001101 010101100 0101010 111001000101 00101 1100100100101 1000011010 100 111101110 1101 010110 1001010 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same words it, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Blaney's Last Directions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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