This is an analysis of the poem Old Heltberg that begins with:
I went to a school that was little and proper,
Both for church and for state a conventional hopper,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdceX FgfgFcffcfFfffFddXhheX iihhccbbccXjhXjj kiffibbll Xhmfed ccjjhhffjjbbbbnnddaXjjlXccedeXkkmmaaddcc jjggooaagg llXgccXffccmmffggjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,22,16,9,6,40,10,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011110110 1111110010010 101011111100 110110011010 11001001001 11101011001 1 1 011110110 1111011001 011101111010 110101010101010 001101101010 11101010001110 011101111010 1010011101001 11001011 1 111 11111011101010 011101111010 0100010101010 0110111001010010 0110101111010 011101111010 1110101110111 11110110111101 1101110110100 1111010111011 101011001101 101011000100100 11110100010100 11010010110 1101111101010 01010001010 110001101110 10010101001 11001111111 110111011010 10101110111010 1001011111 01101111001 1100111110110 01010101011110 11011011010 10100110100 01101101101 101010110101 1 111111001 0 1 1101101101 1110101011010 0110111011110 001101111101 1111011010001 1111011010010 110110010010 11010010010 1011010011010 10100011011100 1011010101101 101111001001 11001101011 00100111111 11011001011 11111010100100 01001001100100 101001111101 11111111101 00100110101011 100001101011 01111011101010 1010111010010 1110110111010 011001010110 101010001011 1100111011011 1110001111011 110001011101 1011110100010 101101011100010 1110010101010 1010010111010 10100011010010 111011101100 101101110010 101001010110 111001001100 101001101111 11100101111010 011001011100100 110110110101 101000101110011 110101010001001 01111010101001 101110101110 111011011110 0101001110111 111001011101 11010111100101 111111010111 0100010110101 11001011011 1100110101001 010111110001 110101011111 0100111010010 0101101010010 0111100101010 0101110011111 0101010101101 10101010100111 11011110010101 010 10 111110001 1101010110101 01011101110101 0101011110001 0101110101101 0101010011001 0100111011 101011111101 01001010101 011111111001 0011010011101 0100111111001 11000101010011 011011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 708
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, what, in, of, their, his, our, he, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, there, his, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, of are repeated).
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- summary of Old Heltberg;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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