This is an analysis of the poem The Deserted Pasture that begins with:

I love the stony pasture
That no one else will have.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb defe gfXf ffff ehfh didi cjgj afff fXXhXadbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 111101 01111101 110011 0101010 010101 10010101 010101 0100011 010001 11110001 110011 0101110 110101 11010101 010011 1001011 110101 11010101 1001001 1101110 010001 11010101 010101 1001011 010011 11010101 110001 1100110 110101 11010101 010101 1101010 010100 01011101 110101 1101010 110101 010101001 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; its, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, in, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words there, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Deserted Pasture;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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