This is an analysis of the poem The Outposts that begins with:
The sun and the clouds above them
Their lights and shadows weave,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded fgggcfcf fdadXgXXeg abbbXdadXebabgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101010 111111 1111110 111111 1101110 110101 0111110 011111 0101010 011111 0101011 1101001 1101110 110101 1101110 110101 1101110 111111 101100 011101 1101110 010110 0 1 11010 011101 1001110 111101 1111010 011101 1011010 111101 1111010 110111 1011010 110111 0101110 010111 1101010 011101 1111110 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, they, o are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Outposts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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