This is an analysis of the poem Flanders that begins with:
Flanders, the name of a place, a country of people,
Spells itself with letters, is written in books. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XXX cX dccdbX dcdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001010010 10101001001 1001001111 1011001111 111111110110 10010011 10110100111 01101010110100 1010111111001110 0110001010 0111101101111 101110110011 10010011 101110011111 110011110111 10010010010101 110100100101 10101001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; flanders, and, on, to, slow are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Flanders;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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