This is an analysis of the poem The Forsaken that begins with:
I.
IT is the music of her native land,-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcX dedeX dfdfX ghgha icica bcbcX XjcjX khkhX jljld ififa mcmcX eieiX ininX liliX aeaeX hghgXXbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0001000101 01110101001 0101111101 0101000101 1 10110100001 0101010101 1001010101 01001000101 1 01001000001 1101010111 1111001111 0101110101 1 1100010111 0100010011 10011100101 1011110011 1 1101011101 1111010111 1111100101 01010100101 1 1111011001 1111010001 01000101101 10110001001 1 11111011100 10110111111 1011110101 1010010001 1 11010010101 1111110101 1111110101 1101010001 1 1100100101 01010111001 01110010101 01110000111 1 0101101111 0101100101 0111110101 1111000101 1 10011101001 111100110010 1101110101 11011101010 1 1111011101 1101001101 1011110001 1101110101 1 1111110101 0111010111 01010100101 111100100101 1 1111000101 0011000101 01001011101 1111110001 1 1101111101 1001111101 0010011101 1001010101 1 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010101 1 1101111101 1011000111 1001011101 1011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, and, of, how, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, know, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Forsaken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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