This is an analysis of the poem Elegy that begins with:
The page opens to snow on a field: boot-holed month, black hour
the bottle in your coat half voda half winter light....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc cdX Xec afXX gdXefff bXgd Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,4,7,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011001101111110 0100111101101 011011111 010001011101 010010101101101101 0001011111011 1011110000010 0101111011 10010010011111010 10 10101011110111010 1101011011011101 01100111110111001 1010100 11010101001 10111 110100 111010110001010 0100111011110 111101110110011 111101 01011110010110101 00101010100101 110111001110001 11110001011 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Elegy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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