This is an analysis of the poem The Melody that begins with:
The youth in the woods spent the whole day long,
The whole day long;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb XXbb cccc cccc dddX dddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110111 0111 11111101001 1001 111110111 0111 01001001001 1001 1001011101100 1101100 111110001001 1001 11110011 0011 1100100101 0101 111100111 0111 0100100101 00101 101111101 1101 0100111111 11110 1001101101 1101 1101101011 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, melody are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines long, song, fair, rare, here, ear, crept, swept, flight, night, therein, win, alone, own are repeated).
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- summary of The Melody;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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