This is an analysis of the poem Departure that begins with:
When I was a lad
No more than a nipper...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXa acda dbeeffXgbbeehhaXg XXFFXI jjiiXcXccc XXFFXI
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,17,6,10,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 111010 110010 10 101 01111 1110110 11111 11101111 101111 101010 11101111101 10111010111 1101111110 111110111110 01111110100 1101101110 01111001110 101110001110 1001001010 11110101101 11101111101 110111111 11111111111 10010011110 1001101110 10111001010 10100 10010110 110 00101110100 01 00100011111 1001110011 1111111111 101010101111 101010 01011 101111 1101 1011110111 111111011111 101111010 10100 10010110 110 00101111100 01
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Departure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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