This is an analysis of the poem Graves that begins with:
I dreamed one man stood against a thousand,
One man damned as a wrongheaded fool. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccd Xb aXa aadee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111101010 111101101 1110101101 1010111 1100101111 1101 11001010100100 101100110001 1100100101 010110001 10101 10101001001 10011010101 1001010 11111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, one, flowers are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, flowers are repeated.
The author used the same word flowers at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wind is repeated).
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- summary of Graves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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