This is an analysis of the poem Toboggan that begins with:
1 Down from the hills and over the snow
2 Swift as a meteor's flash we go,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddXXb eebbbX ffeeb eebggX hhffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,5,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111001 111010111 1010010010 1100101101 11001111101 1010010010 10111110011 110101001011 11001001011 1100101000 1010010010 1100111101 11010100101 1010010010 11001101001 11001000101 110000101000 11001111011 1101011001101 1100110001 11011101101 1010010010 1100111101 11001111001 1010010010 1100111101 10101011001 110000101000 1100111101 101111011101 11001111001 1100100101 1010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; toboggan is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word toboggan at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Toboggan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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