This is an analysis of the poem A Fence that begins with:
Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
workmen are beginning the fence. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101101010 10101001 0101101010111 1101101011110 1010001011011010 11100110111100 101010101 1010111001101 100111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 466
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of A Fence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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