This is an analysis of the poem Incompatibility that begins with:

Higher there, higher, far from the ways,
from the farms and the valleys, beyond the trees,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdedeafgfgbghhdXdgiXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101101001 00110100101 010110101 100110100 1010011001 1011110101 010111011 0100100101 0110100011 1111111101 0111101001 10100100101 11110110011 11101010111 11111001001 0110101001 101110111 101111001 101010001001 0100111011 11110100100 1101001111 0101001100 001001011011 111101001 100101101 1111111101 1101111001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1241
  • Average number of words per stanza: 224
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, in, on, those are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.

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  • summary of Incompatibility;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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